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RE: cygwin 2.22 find in NT 4.0
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: cygwin 2.22 find in NT 4.0
- From: Evan McLean <emclean at datatask dot com dot au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:53:22 +1100
>I myself discovered that cygwin's find is case hypersensitive. Despite the
>case insensitive nature of the Windows filesystems, apparently find gets
>the name of the file and compares against that, so that it only matches if
>your pattern is the exact (case matched) string that the FS is returning.
>However, your examples imply that you have handled this already. Try:
>
>$ find . -name [Pp][oO][Rr][Tt]\.[Ii][Nn][Ii]
>
>I just tested this (with win.ini) and it works nicely. I haven't written
>the awk script to convert all alphas to 2 character classes yet, but I'd
>be happy to post it once it's ready...
You'll probably find that
$find . -iname port.ini
Works equally well.
See "man find" regarding details of iname option (plus lots of others!).
E.
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