Re: Case insensitive bash search?

From	"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Case insensitive bash search?
Date	2013-01-25 20:11 -0500
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On 2013-01-25, Tim Watts wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2013 23:01 Jon Danniken wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
>
>> On 01/25/2013 12:01 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
>>> On Friday 25 January 2013 16:59 Jon Danniken wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
>>>
>>>> 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".
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to have results returned regardless of case?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>
>>> find -iname ... -maxdepth 1
>>>
>>> Or do you *really* want to do it in the shell?
>> 
>> 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

   It can be important on any system.

   If all the processing can be done by a single call to an external
   command, that's fine, but if it has to be called in a loop, it can
   make a vast difference to the time it takes.

   Since snippets of code are often incorporated into larger scripts,
   inefficiences arfe magnified.

-- 
   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
   Author:
   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

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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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