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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users find iname is being case sensitive Post 302546378 by cokedude on Thursday 11th of August 2011 05:19:43 AM

08-11-2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pludi

My first guess would be that in the directory you're in there's a file or directory called Downloads. With the shell expanding the wildcards, the real command line becomes

Code:

find /media -iname Downloads 2>/dev/null

(which is everything the first command found).

Try it like this:

Code:

find /media -iname '*load*' 2>/dev/null

The single quotes around the wildcards tell the shell not to expand them, but rather pass them as they are to the command.

Yep your right.

Code:

$ ls -l
total 1888
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob    4194 Aug  5 02:53 1
-rwxr--r--.  1 bob bob     406 Jul 10 07:27 ab
-rwxr--r--.  1 bob bob     406 Jul 10 07:08 ac
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 bob bob    4707 Jul  5 23:39 a.out
-rw-------.  1 bob bob   11416 Jul  7 07:57 apple
-rw-------.  1 bob bob  294268 Aug  6 23:59 boo_20110806
-rw-------.  1 bob bob  294935 Aug  7 23:59 boo_20110807
-rw-------.  1 bob bob  299096 Aug  8 23:59 boo_20110808
-rw-------.  1 bob bob  300096 Aug  9 20:33 boo_20110809
-rw-------.  1 bob bob  301564 Aug 10 23:59 boo_20110810
-rw-------.  1 bob bob  305553 Aug 11 05:11 boo_20110811
drwxrwxr-x.  9 bob bob    4096 Jun 12 16:43 btsco                                        
drwxr-xr-x.  9 bob bob    4096 Aug 11 00:50 Desktop
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob     512 Aug  2 17:23 directory.cpio
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob     166 Jul 20 19:36 display
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob     166 Jul 20 19:36 display~
drwxr-xr-x.  2 bob bob    4096 Aug  5 05:57 Documents
drwxr-xr-x. 10 bob bob   12288 Aug 11 02:50 Downloads
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob       3 Aug 11 04:44 gg
-rw-------.  1 bob root   1481 Jul 13 06:54 grub.conf
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob      78 Jul  5 18:06 hello.c
drwxr-xr-x.  2 bob bob    4096 Jun  6 09:32 Music
drwxr-xr-x.  2 bob bob    4096 Jun  6 09:32 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x.  2 bob bob    4096 Jun  6 09:32 Public
-rw-rw-r--.  1 bob bob      32 Jun 11 13:34 scripts.7z
drwxr-xr-x.  2 bob bob    4096 Jun  6 09:32 Templates
-rwxrw-r--.  1 bob bob      65 Jun 18 03:11 test
drwxr-xr-x.  2 bob bob    4096 Jun 26 02:07 Videos

Does shell expansion get handled differently in find with double quotes and single quotes than other programs? I know in grep shell expansion still happens with double quotes and not with with single quotes. I learned that from fpmurphy.

https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-ex...#post302544734

I got the same results with single quotes and double quotes. I got all of the results I expected from both of these.

Code:

find /media -iname '*load*' 2>/dev/null
find /media -iname "*load*" 2>/dev/null

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