On 12/18/20 3:45 PM, Budi wrote:
> How to have a starting directory with a specification, e.g. it must be
> case insensitive ?
As you didn't provide an example, I'm not 100% sure what you mean.
What I _think_ you mean:
There are several directories in which you want to search like:
dir-a
dir-B
dir-c
dir-C
dir-D
Basically 'find' only process the starting points specified literally.
So to search in all of them, one has to call:
find dir-a dir-B dir-c dir-C dir-D -print
But you can use the shell to do the matching.
find dir-? -print
Now, let's assume you only want a certain subset of the above directories,
then you could use a more fine-grained pattern.
find dir-[acBC] -print
Finally, for the very elaborate case, one could even use find/xargs to feed
another find process with the starting arguments.
# based on the above dirs ...
$ touch dir-c/file-empty
$ uptime > dir-C/file-nonempty
$ find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -iname 'dir-c' -print0 \
| xargs -0 --replace=__ARGS__ \
find __ARGS__ -type f -size +1c -exec ls -ldog '{}' +
-rw-r--r-- 1 70 Dec 18 19:10 ./dir-C/file-nonempty
Hope this helps.
Have a nice day,
Berny
