topic Re: find files in Operating System - HP-UX

find files

j773303 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:08:41 GMT

Does anyone knows how to find files as below? Which options can be apply in find ? Thanks.

#find . -name test.txt

It can be found "test.txt" or "TEST.txt" or "TEST.TXT" or "test.TXT"

Re: find files

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:18:03 GMT

Use the find -o (or operator)

find . -name $ -name 'test.txt' -o -name 'TEST.txt' -o -name 'test.TXT' $

Plan B. Find everything and then use a case insensitive grep as a filter:

find . -type f -print | grep -i 'test.txt'

Re: find files

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:22:08 GMT

Hi,

One 'confusing' way is to use expression like this

find . -name \[Tt\]\[Ee\]\[sS\]\[tT\]\.\[tT\]\[xX\]\[tT\]

-Sri

Re: find files

Hein van den Heuvel — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:31:35 GMT

I know you can do wildcards ("*" or "?") but I do not think you can do case sensitivity.

Of course you can do 'or conditions', but that's tedious...

find . -name test.txt -o -name TEST.txt -o -name TEST.TXT -o -name test.TXT

Hein.

Re: find files

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:42:02 GMT

The expression given by me works for me.

The '-o' option is an easy way for file names of shorter length. However, as the number of letters in the filename increase, the combinations will increase and it can become unmanageable. [] notation may confuse a little bit but it doesn't really increase your command line.

-Sri

Re: find files

Michael D'Aulerio — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:07:19 GMT

I use grep:
find . | grep -i test.txt

Mike D'.

Re: find files

Rodney Hills — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:16:51 GMT

You could get the gnu find from HP porting and archive site. It has an option "-iname" that does case insensitive matches.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: find files

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:41:32 GMT

# find . | fgrep -i -w test.txt

# perl -MFile::Find -le'find(sub{lc$_ eq"test.txt"and print$File::Find::name},".")'

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn