On Tuesday 16 October 2007 11:56:55 am Stan Goodman wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 16 Oct > 2007 11:19:47 -0500 > > > On Tuesday 16 October 2007 10:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote: > > ... > > > > > I did <find -name "mplayer*"> from "/" as root, and turned up nothing > > > recognizable. > > > > It is case sensitive. For instance: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find /usr/share/doc -name xerces* > > /usr/share/doc/packages/xerces-j2 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find /usr/share/doc -name Xerces* > > /usr/share/doc/packages/Xerces-c > > I'm sure you are right. I am equally sure that I read somewhere that "find" > will treat file names as case insensitive. Unfortuntely, I dod not remember > where I read that, but if the statement is incorrect, then that source was > in error. Thank you for the warning, which I will certainly keep in mind. > > Insensitivity, actually, would be more logical: if you are searching for > something, you probably don't know the case in which its name appeears, and > may spend lots of time and frustration in trying permutations of case. But > again, one lives with reality. ... I missed in 'man find' option '-iname' that will ignore case. So using previous example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find /usr/share/doc -iname xerces* /usr/share/doc/packages/Xerces-c /usr/share/doc/packages/xerces-j2 will give just what you are looking for. ... > There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to > become one of the world's great writers. When asked to define "great" he > said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that > people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them > scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!" He now works for Microsoft, writing > error messages. :-D Long signature is not always that bad. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
