Date: 19 Sep 2002 09:20:43 -0400 From: Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <1032441644.1295.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200209190757.22640.bts@babbleon.org> References: <20020919013548.H83658-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200209190757.22640.bts@babbleon.org>
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Or, try "-iname" instead of "-name"
man find
...
-iname pattern
Like -name, but the match is case insensitive.
...
Hope that helps,
-Matt
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 07:57, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:38 am, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> | Tonight I surprised myself by running `find ~/Desktop/folder/ -name
> | "*.jpg" -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/folderjpgs/ \;` successfully! My first
> | custom find command line ever.
> |
> | But there were two issues -- I had to escape the semicolon with a "\"
>
> Yes, it always works that way.
>
> | -- does this ever cause problems for find command lines?
>
> No, not really.
>
> | Second,
> | this found only *.jpg files and left behind *.JPG files so how do you
> | make find be case-insensitive?
>
> find ~/Desktop/folder/ \( -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.JPG" \) \
> -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/folderjpgs/ \;
>
> Actually, what *I* do is avoid having files with capital letters in
> them, or spaces, or &'s, or any of those other goofy characters you
> sometimes find in Windows file names. Then I don't have to do the
> above. I accomplish that with the attached pair of scripts, though
> there are no doubts lots of other nice ways to do this.
>
> (I run the "unmsdos" script over files that I download from the web or
> newsgroups or what-have-you. It makes all of file names
> "Unix-friendly" and, if the file is a text file, it invokes uncrnl to
> change the cr-nl's at the ends of lines into just plan nl's.)
>
> | -exec ThankYouScript.sh {} \;
>
> --
> Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal)
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