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# 1  
Old 12-17-2009
Substring match
Hi,

I want to find a file / directory with the name xxxxCELLxxx in the given path. The CELL is can be either in a UPPER or lower case.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 12-17-2009
The man page for the find command should be helpful - try it out. To match the pattern "CELL" in lower as in upper case, you should write it like
Code:
find / -type f -name ????[Cc][Ee][Ll][Ll]??? -print

I assumed the xxx are placeholders.
# 3  
Old 12-17-2009
GNU find: :
Code:
find path/to/dir -iname '????cell???'

# 4  
Old 12-17-2009
Another approach using ls and awk
Code:
ls | awk 'substr($0,5,4)=="CELL" || substr($0,5,4)=="cell"'

# 5  
Old 12-17-2009
Code:
ls | awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1}substr($0,5,4)=="cell"'

Code:
ls ????[Cc][eE][lL][lL]???

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