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Hy,
Does someone know how to setup "find" command allowing to find all files or directories according to a specific filter whatever case sensitive (I'm working on AIX platform 4.3.3).
Example:
find / -type d -exec grep ....
Or perhaps using regular expresssion
find / -type d -name *...$name...\*

Thanks for your help

Do a search on www.unix.com - search for find case sensitive. Livinfree and others seem to have answered this type of question before.

If that doesn't help, respond to this again.

Thanks for this suggestion but i've found nothing that i've not yet be done ...
In fact, i'm searching for a substitute of "-iname" option. I'd like to use a loop using a variable ($var for example) which should be passed to search command like "find":
Ex.:
for var in listing_var
do
find . -name $var ... ...
done

I've thought about syntax like :
find . -type d -name *[A-z][$var] ...
or
find . -type d -exec grep -i $var
But i've some problem to implement it.

Does $ find . -print | grep -i $1 take care of it?

This method filters entirely the path of your search. Ex.:
find . -type d | grep -i toto
will show all directories and sub-directories containing "toto" in their paths like:
./toto
./test/ToTo
./toto/test (<- My PB !)

I'm not sure if you now have what you need or are looking for something else.

Original problem stated:
setup "find" command allowing to find all files or directories according to a specific filter whatever case sensitive


The suggested fix will do that.

To add it to your script would be simple.

If you need more than that, respond with more information.
If you are looking to filter more out of the output from the find comand (piped to grep) you may need to be more specific in what you are greping for (add another grep with -v option to get rid of what you don't want?)

Thank to be indulgent about my english ...
Yours suggestions and remarks are correct and i noticed that precisions miss so:

My complete problem is that i'm trying to set up a method (using find command for example) to filter all directories and sub-directories containing a predefined substring (like "toto") declared in a variable (because of a loop. see above for details).

I try first to implement find command with "-exec" option and combine it with grep command:
find . -type d -exec grep ... ... {} \;
But it seems not to be the good way.

...

While writting this reply, i thought about another way of solution. Perhaps have you any suggestions to improve and validate it:

find . -type d -exec basename {} \; -ls | grep -i "toto" | nawk '{print 11}'