cygwin 2.22 find in NT 4.0

[Evan McLean]

>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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