in reply to Search for file ignore case

In the shell, eg. by using du:

$~>  du -a | egrep -i TEST.MAK

But there are zillions of other ways too.

Regards

mwa

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Re^2: Search for file ignore case
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2008 at 19:49 UTC
    du -a can be replaced by find. That'll eliminate the leading junk.
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Re^2: Search for file ignore case
by Noame (Beadle) on May 18, 2008 at 20:04 UTC

    i need perl command to find the file under unix account. I've get the file from function, e.g: TeST.maK.

    Once i've the file name i need to look for the correct name under spacifiad directory using ignore case.

    if the corret file is: TEST.mak i need to initalize variable with it.
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      The following code shows a function that will receive the directory where to look for the files and the filename you got from function (TeST.maK). It will then read the directory contents and perform a test to see if the filename matches any of the files in the directory. The i modifier on the regexp makes that match case insensitive. If a match is found, the actual name of the file is returned, otherwise the returned value will be an empty string.

      sub getFileName {
    my $dir  = shift;
    my $file = shift;

    opendir(DIR, $dir);
    my @dirContent = readdir(DIR);
    closedir(DIR);

    foreach my $content (@dirContent) {
        if($file =~ /^$content$/i) {
            # filename matches
            return $content;
        }
    }
    return '';
}

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      note: verbose solution for clarity.

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