David> How duplicate? Names? Contents? Name + Contents? David> diff has some support for comparing directories. David> uniq has a potentially helpful -d flag. David> I smell a find coming up. find alone would be inadequate. I don't intend to write the script for the inquirer, but assuming that duplication in content is the intent, md5sum should suffice to spot the files, so some form of the following should pretty well handle the guts of what is needed. Add whistles and bells to taste: #!/bin/ksh find "$@" -follow -type f | while read f; do md5sum $f; done | sort | uniq -w 32 -D Note that this will find linked files as duplicates. -- Lynn David Newton Phoenix, AZ