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