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

find command

Shivkumar — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:50:16 GMT

Is it possible to give case insensitive option while searching files using hpux find command ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: find command

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:02:15 GMT

Not precisely but this sort of thing is possible:

find . -name '[xX]*[cC]' -print
which would match
x.c
x.C
X2.c
X4567.c

among others.

Re: find command

baiju_3 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:03:55 GMT

What is the file pattern you need to search .

you can use the below regular expression to print 2 files test and Test .

find . -name "[tT]est" -name .

thx,
bl.

Re: find command

Rodney Hills — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:29:27 GMT

If you use the gnu find utility. It is available from the HP software porting and archive centre.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/findutils-4.2.20/

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: find command

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:20:19 GMT

Shiv,

From the man pages:
grep:
-i, --ignore-case
Ignore case distinctions in both the PATTERN and the input files.

find:
-ilname pattern
Like -lname, but the match is case insensitive.

-iname pattern
Like -name, but the match is case insensitive. For
example, the patterns `fo*' and `F??' match the file
names `Foo', `FOO', `foo', `fOo', etc.

-ipath pattern
Like -path, but the match is case insensitive.

-iregex pattern
Like -regex, but the match is case insensitive.

Re: find command

Cem Tugrul — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:48:57 GMT

Shiv,

Let's say you want to find out files like
TEST or test so;

find . -name "[tT]est" -exec ll -d { } \;

Good Luck,

Re: find command

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:06:08 GMT

find command is using only pattern matching not regexp's. You have to use pattern matches with -name option as,

file1
File1

find . -name "[Ff]ile?"

[Ff] - selection list whether F of f

? - any character

You can use grep -i to ignore case.

hth.

Re: find command

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:10:40 GMT

Send your exact requirement to give suitable REGEXP with find. find + grep will give bad performance.

You can use find + xargs + grep instead of find + -exec as,

find / -name "*" | xargs grep -i ""

hth.

Re: find command

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:18:49 GMT

You can use a mixture of find and grep for that:

find . -type f | grep -i name

-i option of grep will be case-insensitive.