Re: Case insensitive bash search?

From	Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Case insensitive bash search?
Date	2013-01-25 14:58 -0800
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On 01/25/2013 12:45 PM, ray carter wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:48:05 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>
>> unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
>>>
>>> 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'.

Awesome, thanks Ray, and unruh and Richard as well.  I'll make a script 
for this  so it will be as quick as "ll foo" (maybe "xx foo").

Jon

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Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-25 08:59 -0800
  Re: Case insensitive bash search? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-01-25 11:44 -0600
    Re: Case insensitive bash search? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-01-29 13:56 +0000
      Re: Case insensitive bash search? Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2013-01-29 12:41 -0500
  Re: Case insensitive bash search? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-01-25 17:59 +0000
    Re: Case insensitive bash search? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-01-25 13:13 -0500
      Re: Case insensitive bash search? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-01-25 13:23 -0500
    Re: Case insensitive bash search? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-01-25 19:48 +0000
      Re: Case insensitive bash search? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2013-01-25 20:45 +0000
        Re: Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-25 14:58 -0800
          Re: Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-25 15:28 -0800
            Re: Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-25 16:14 -0800
            Re: Case insensitive bash search? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-01-25 19:04 -0600
            Re: Case insensitive bash search? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-01-26 06:51 +0000
      Re: Case insensitive bash search? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-01-26 06:47 +0000
        Re: Case insensitive bash search? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-01-26 16:36 +0000
  Re: Case insensitive bash search? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-01-25 20:01 +0000
    Re: Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-25 15:01 -0800
      Re: Case insensitive bash search? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-01-25 23:36 +0000
        Re: Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-25 16:09 -0800
          Re: Case insensitive bash search? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-01-26 11:21 +0000
            Re: Case insensitive bash search? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2013-01-26 15:14 -0800
        Re: Case insensitive bash search? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-01-25 20:11 -0500

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