'find' case insensitive filenames

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed Jun 30 22:10:00 GMT 1999


--- Yu-Jui Lee <yjlee@go-trinity.com.tw> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may be a stray topic. But in a Win32 environment, the convention with
> file names is case insensitive. While the 'find' command in cygwin b20.1 is
> case sensitive. For example, if I want to find a case-insensitive "foo.bar",
> I need to type "find . -name "[Ff][Oo][Oo][Bb][Aa][Rr]". Is there a
> convenient way to do this?

find . -iname foobar

-iname = case insensitive name
===
YAWIA,
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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