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Old 04-14-2006
find files where text case is different
I need to search a directory for files that have certain text in the file name. I use the following command to do that successfully -

find /abc/indicator -name '*midday*.ind'

The problem is some file names are lower case, some mixed case and some upper case. Is there a way to do the find so case doesn't matter?

Also, I need perform some processing if I find files with certain text, otherwise I do other processing. Does the find command return a value that I can use for conditional processing?

Thanks for any help!
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Old 04-14-2006
Code:
find /abc/indicator -print | grep  -i  '.*midday.*\.ind'

The -i tells grep to ignore case, the regex is grep's version of your wildcard match for files.
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Old 04-14-2006
As to your second question - what is it you're looking for? Give examples.
# 4  
Old 04-25-2006
I need to perform something like the following

if there is a file with midday in the name
perform the following commands
else
perform these commands
end if

Using the following command - find /home/m088267 -print | grep -i '.*midday.*\.ind' to check for certain files, how do I code the if statement to know what processing to do?

Thanks for the help!
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Old 04-25-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by schipper
find /home/m088267 -print | grep -i '.*midday.*\.ind'
Wouldnt this find help ?

Code:
find /home/m088267 -iname "*midday*.ind"

# 6  
Old 04-26-2006
-iname looks like a useful find expression, but it's missing from AIX Smilie
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