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 16:09 -0800
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On 01/25/2013 03:36 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2013 23:01 Jon Danniken wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
>
>> Thanks Tim.  My reason for trying to do this in the shell (as opposed to
>> in a file manager) is because I have some folders with a lot of files in
>> them (thousands to tens of thousands), and my file manager (Dolphin -
>> KDE) often has problems at times with folders that big.
>>
>> I find that using the shell is a *lot* quicker than the file manager,
>> and very noticeably so when interacting with one of these
>> "high-capacity" folders.
>
> I really meant "are you obsessed with not exec-ing other command binaries"?
> That could be a valid concern on a crappy little embedded system, but not
> usually a problem on a normal system - unless you are trying to aim for 100%
> portability across loads of unices - where you cannot assume GNU extensions
> etc.

Okay, I gotcha.  I'm not at that level (yet), just a home PC user for 
the time being.

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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