Finding files by Extention in a CLI
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 11 18:29:18 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> H. Streit wrote:
>
>> Okay, so I've just copied over a bunch of files and I want to find all
>> .com/.COM/.Com files...
>> I thought "find . -print|grep -i ".com" would work, tried a few
>> variants, but I know I'm doing something wrong...any takers?
>
>
> $ find . -name '*.[Cc][Oo][Mm]' -print
My excuse for not using the vastly superior "find . -iname '*.com'"
is... I didn't know about it! I use HP-UX a lot at work and the HP-UX
version of "find" doesn't have the -iname option.
You learn something every day on this list.
Paul.
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