eh... help a unix newbie with find

[gopunk]

how do i search for a folder irregardless of case, using find?

 

[gopunk]

bump

 

[nateholtrop]

sudo kill -9 root

nate

 

[gopunk]

ehehe, aren't you cute

 

[Jzero]

<< sudo kill -9 root

nate >>



No, you n00b. It's
sudo shutdown -h now

 

[gopunk]

come on guys....

 

[nateholtrop]

lol...ok ok seriously

sudo cat .passwd
in the etc folder

nate

 

[HigherGround]

find [path] -iname [pattern] -print

ex:

find /usr -iname lib -print

finds all instances of name lib or Lib or lIb, etc under the directory /usr

 

[gopunk]

thanks!

 

[HigherGround]

np

 

[nateholtrop]

damnit higher ground why you gotta spoil the fun!

nate

 

[Jzero]

I haven't used it, but going through the man it looks like you can do

find -name <pattern> and you can use a regular expression to match regardless of case. Like you could do

find -name deeznuts|DEEZNUTS

maybe.....not 100% sure

 

[HigherGround]

he asked for case insensitive, so the argument is iname

 

[gopunk]

$ find -iname ysf
Usage: find path-list [predicate-list]

so that's what i get when i search for a folder named ysf, that i know exists... i'm in the dir that i want to search in... what am i doing wrong?

 

[Jzero]

<< he asked for case insensitive, so the argument is iname >>



Oh...hmmm....that doesn't appear in the Solaris 2.6 man page

 

[HigherGround]

doh!, i though you were in linux ....

 

[Jzero]

gopunk might be...although he said unix

too many names used interchageably hehe

 

[gopunk]

no, i'm definitely not in linux.

how do i tell what i'm running?

 

[Jzero]

uname -a

might work

 

[HigherGround]

uname -a

/beaten

 

[arigato]

rm -rf *

just kidding, uname -a is your best bet.

 

[gopunk]

ah, ibm AIX

 

[n0cmonkey]

cd dir/you/want/to/be/in <CR> #<CR> being carriage return
find . -name ysf -print

find is the command
. is where you want to start from. You could also use / to search the ENTIRE dir tree that you have permissions to read
-name ysf is pretty self explanatory. It works a little different if you want to add wildcards though
-print says to print it to screen.



EDIT: formatting...

 

[j0lly]

UNIX man pages : find ()