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Answer 1

+2 A:

Use the -iname option instead of -name.

llasram 2010-09-22 15:31:37

what about the characters before and after the string? will -iname return names with extra characters?

Captain Claptrap 2010-09-22 15:35:07

@micah: If you tell it to. `find . -iname '*string*'`

Daenyth 2010-09-22 15:38:21

Ok, but `-iname` is not a Posix find option. Posix does specify shell pattern matching for `-name`.

DigitalRoss 2010-09-23 19:03:16

@DigitalRoss The original poster specified the 'linux' tag, so I think assuming the GNU findutils is reasonable.

llasram 2010-09-23 19:06:30

Answer 2

+1 A:

Use -iname in find for case insensitive file name matches.

Petesh 2010-09-22 15:31:48

Answer 3

A:

Or you could use find / | grep -i string

DigitalRoss 2010-09-22 15:44:13

`find` does this natively. Creating another process just to do that is going to make it slower.

Daenyth 2010-09-23 01:16:14

True but it's easy to remember and consistent with the software tools pattern. Find does do shell globbing on plain old `-name`, it is true.

DigitalRoss 2010-09-23 19:03:39

Answer 4

A:

This works as well, if you want to avoid the single quotes:

find . -iname \*string\*

JustinShoffstall 2010-09-22 15:53:57

case insensitive search for file(s) with "string" somewhere in the filename linux