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From: ray carter <ray@zianet.com>
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Subject: Re: Case insensitive bash search?
Date: 25 Jan 2013 20:45:52 GMT
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:48:05 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
>> On 2013-01-25, Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have the search of a folder with "ll" return all
>>> case-insensitive results?
>>>
>>> As an example, if I search for "*Foo*", I will only get files that
>>> have the capital "F", but not "foo".
>>
>> I do not think ls has such an option. But you could do ls |grep -i
>> '*foo*'
>> which would return the case insensitive result.
> 
> That won’t work.  grep doesn’t use glob syntax.

Simply use 'ls | grep -i foo'.