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Please let us know which OS you're using. It is important for this question because on most *nix flavours, the creation time is not stored in filesystem.

On windows, you can use...

In what way did they not work? "Does not work" is manifestly unhelpful. They might be one minor correction away from working for all we know - rejecting them out of hand without even bothering to...

I'm afraid that stubbornly repeating your question as well as that code snippet, ignoring any of the proposals given in this thread, won't take you anywhere.
Why don't you take a step back and start...

If you want to ignore everything you've been told and do not want to print directory names in order of date of creation and instead want to print directory names in order of increasing file status...

How about, respecting the caveats by drl above:
ls -tcrd */ | while read DIRN; do echo "$DIRN"; done

If you have gnu ls
$ ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 8.21
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is...

If you want to search deeper that just within the current directory (i.e. searching within subdirectories) you can use the find command:-
find /path/to/source -type d -name "*word*"
Be aware that...

A trailing / ensures it is a directory
for filename in /home/test/*word*/
With your original loop, you can go for a case-esac, or, if there is only one pattern, go for a [[ == ]]
if [[ $filename...

Depending on what you are doing with $filename after determining that it names a directory, you might also be able to reduce the iterations through the loop by just looking for directories to start...

Try
for filename in /home/test/*word*

Breaking this up for clarity, you have this:-#!/bin/bash

for i in `find /home/videos/ -name "*.mp4" -print0 | xargs -0`
do
ffmpeg -loglevel panic -y -i "$i" -frames 1 -q:v 5 -vf...

As a further example of what jim mcnamara and RudiC are talking about, consider the following directories in your two file hierarchies:
/TEST1
/TEST1/dir1
/TEST1/dir1/dir1
/TEST1/dir3...

Try
find TEST1 TEST2 -type d | awk -F/ '{D[$NF]++} END {for (d in D) if (D[d]>1) print D[d] ": " d}'

The fdupes command that you mention does a very thorough comparison of files before it does any action. You just want directory names regardless of contents?

That's not too specific nor precise, is it? What exactly are you after? Identical directory names/branches? Identical file names? Identical files?

Hi Ivo did you test this?

Please be very careful when suggesting the use ofrm -rf without fully knowing the consequences!

In this case before the find command is even being executed, the shell...

find /home/test -name "*.testfile" -type f -exec rm -irf $(dirname {}) \;