"find -name" ... case INsensitive?

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Is it possible using the commandline “find” to find fils but without
having to enter correct case?

Example:

Code:

bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # ls tv-series/
Dexter - Series 3 Simpsons, The - Series 20 Ugly Betty - Series 3
Prison Break - Series 4 Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles - Series 2

Code:

bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # find -name “dexter”

finds nothing, but

Code:

bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # find -name “Dexter”
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E08.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E03.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E04.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E07.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E01.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E10.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E06.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E05.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E02.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E11.HDTV.XviD-aAF.avi
./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E09.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares #

finds the files.

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badger_fruit;1909296 Wrote:
> Is it possible using the commandline “find” to find fils but without
> having to enter correct case?
>
> >
Code:

> >
> bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # find -name “dexter”
>

> >
>
> finds nothing

Code:

find -iname “dexter”

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zandro;1909303 Wrote:
> >
Code:

> > find -iname “dexter”

> >

D’OH!
Such an easy thing!!
HAHA, I tried to read the man pages but there were PAGES and PAGES and
PAGES!!!

Thank you!!!

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actually you don’t have to read the man page, just hit “/” for search
and “n” for next

also if you’re using different locales (i.e. not english) it could help
to check the english manpage (though typically thereby you get even more
PAGES and PAGES… :wink: )

Code:

LANG=C man foo

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:46:02 GMT, badger fruit
<badger_fruit@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # find -name “dexter”

Use iname instead of name

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And *man:find *in Konqueror’s address bar makes a much more readible
document (where searching for ‘case’ is also very easy).

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And you could always just have find give you data and then use grep to
do the finding… which is what I did before learning about ‘iname’:

find ./ | grep -i fileNameHere

Good luck.

badger fruit wrote:
> Is it possible using the commandline “find” to find fils but without
> having to enter correct case?
>
> Example:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # ls tv-series/
> Dexter - Series 3 Simpsons, The - Series 20 Ugly Betty - Series 3
> Prison Break - Series 4 Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles - Series 2
>
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # find -name “dexter”
>
> --------------------
>
>
> finds nothing, but
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares # find -name “Dexter”
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E08.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E03.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E04.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E07.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E01.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E10.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E06.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E05.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E02.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E11.HDTV.XviD-aAF.avi
> ./tv-series/Dexter - Series 3/Dexter.S03E09.HDTV.XviD-0TV.avi
> bgrsvr-x:/home/badger_fruit/tmpshares #
>
> --------------------
>
>
> finds the files.
>
>
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