I am in the process of combining my movie collection with someone else.
Is there any way I can script something that can go through the directories and find matching file names, in all or part of the name.

example

Home Movie should match Home Movie CD1

First thing that comes to mind is powershell and the like operator

Just an example in python
This is an 83% match. Problem is you are going to have to define a cut off of what is an acceptable match % and what is not.

Yeah but I don't want to have to define the names of duplicates. I want to find them.
Powershell sounds like a path I should look into.

Maybe what I said was confusing. This calculates a number that represents how close they are to each other. In the example the number was 0.83 (or 83%). For example you might tell the program that any pair that returns with greater then 0.80 should be considered a match. However there will be mistakes. For example:

The Thing (1982)
vs
john carpenter\'s the thing

is seen as a 33% match, but (to a human being) they are the same thing

how does your code "know"?

you know they're the same thing



like this for example, because of years of history in the subject
does your code magically know?

total commander should be able to do this for you - trial version is free.

You could generate md5 hashes for each movie you are checking and compare those. If the files are 100% identical, they will match and you can just keep one of them.

Lol, that would only check for duplicate files which is pretty useless to use if you know anything about how movies are ripped, what he most likely wants are for movie titles to be matched for similarity.

Azrad posted the solution already

another idea is to have the program collect the name of potential matches as before (with say 50% matches) then have it display these to a human and have them make the final decision.