How To Select The Files With Same Name In Two Folders

[Tanuj_Singh]

Let's guess I have two folders: A & B.

Now, there are 600+ files in folder A and 400+ files in folder B.

There are many files which share the same name in these two folders.

I.E. file.so in folder A and file.so in folder B.

Now, there are also some files which are not present in both of the folders, I want to ignore them.

So, is there any software that can do this without much hassle?

[David_Wright]

Let's guess I have two folders: A & B.

Now, there are 600+ files in folder A and 400+ files in folder B.

I want to copy files with same name from folder A to folder B which is very hard if done manually.

So, is there any software that can do this without much hassle?

There is an example on this page of a bash script that "compares the files in two directories and lists which files in the first directory are missing from the second", which seems like a good place to start if you want to write a script to do this regularly.

[ajgreeny]

You can not have two files in the same folder if the files are named identically, so I am not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do; can you explain more please.

If David above has got nearer what you want you may find that unison (with its gtk GUI if you want it) is helpful.

[Tanuj_Singh]

You can not have two files in the same folder if the files are named identically, so I am not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do; can you explain more please.

No, I already said there are two folders, A and B.

[Impavidus]

Sounds to me as updating files in dir B from files in dir A. You could use rsync with the option --existing:

rsync --existing /path/to/dirA/* /path/to/dirB/

[howefield]

Let's guess I have two folders: A & B.

Is this a hypothetical question or do you have an actual issue ?

Now, there are 600+ files in folder A and 400+ files in folder B. I want to copy files with same name from folder A to folder B which is very hard if done manually...

Are you saying that you want to copy files from folder A, to folder B which already contains files with the same name as in folder A, but different file contents.

Your post is as clear as mud.

[Tanuj_Singh]

Sounds to me as updating files in dir B from files in dir A. You could use rsync with the option --existing:

rsync --existing /path/to/dirA/* /path/to/dirB/

Awesome, that did it. Thank you

[vasa1]

You could have had the courtesy to give impavidus credit in your Ask Ubuntu answer !!!

[Tanuj_Singh]

You could have had the courtesy to give impavidus credit in your Ask Ubuntu answer !!!

Sorry, I've given the credit. I was so into getting the work done that I forgot.

[vasa1]

Sorry, I've given the credit. I was so into getting the work done that I forgot.

Great