Questions tagged [case-sensitivity]
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find command - how to ignore case in -path option?
when searching filename or dirname case-insensetively, we can use option -iname.
but if I want to ignore case in -path option, what should I do?
can I do it with only find command, without using ...
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Using regular expressions in “less”
I'm trying to use a regular expression in the man page of Bash by using less.
I press / in less to enter a pattern, and I type z and press the Enter. I expected it to not match upper-case z (Z), but ...
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Does sort -u convert case?
If I have a file with some words starting with Capital letters and some starts with Small letters and some start with numbers or special characters. Does using sort -u input > output convert the ...
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Ignore case in Find command
I want to search file in 2 different directories using find command,
find $file_dir1 $file_dir2 -name 'searchpattern*' | tail -10
I am using this command now, but it is case-sensitive search.
I ...
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case insensitive, list files in directory, ending in .jpg [duplicate]
I'm trying to write an alias to list all the files in a directory ending in JP(E)G in its various forms. The ones I'm looking for it to recognise are .jpg .JPG .jpeg and .JPEG.
Is there a form of ls (...
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Is it possible to disable ext4 case sensitivity?
With NTFS you can enable or disable case sensitivity. Is there a way to do it with ext4 in Linux?
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Create a folder with all possible combinations of characters and numbers [closed]
I want to create a folder like "example.txt, example.Txt, example.TxT... all possible combinations.
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case-preserving linux usernames and hostnames
Is there a way to set pam library to do case-preserving username validation? Is there a way to set useradd command to accept and preserve the case of usernames? I know usernames and URLs are not OS ...
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Format disk as HFS+, but case sensitive?
Linux can format an (external) disk as HFS+, e.g.:
apt-get install gparted hfsprogs, then
gparted /dev/sdd, rightclick on the partition to format, choose HFS+, click Apply, quit; mount -t hfsplus /dev/...
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Case insensitive directory search?
I am working on restructuring the folder structure of few existing folders.
So if there are any folders missed i will have to add it.
First am checking if the directory exists or not with if ...
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Move files that have the same case-insensitive filename
I have been asked by the data owner to copy a specific folder (and its large amount of subfolders and files) via FTPS to our cloud storage provider. I am using LFTP for that, and the upload worked ...
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bash - case-insensitive matching of variable
This syntax prints "linux" when variable equals "no":
[[ $LINUX_CONF = no ]] && echo "linux"
How would I use regular expressions (or similar) in order to make the comparison case ...
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Using wildcard in 'ls' command to find files containing uppercase letters only
So I've been playing around with filesystem and wondered about listing the files in /etc that contains only upper-case letters in their names. I commanded
ls *[A-Z]*
But the console shows the files ...
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Does the UNIX standard require case-sensitive filesystems?
One answer to this question mentions the UNIX 03 certification of OSX. Now AFAIK the standard file system of OSX is/was HFS, which "saves the case of a file that is created or renamed but is case-...
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Are keywords in resolv.conf case sensitive?
Looking around I have found out the following about /etc/resolv.conf valid formatting:
Trailing whitespace is allowed
Leading whitespace is NOT allowed
DNS records are case insensitive, though you ...
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How to copy with scp a file that case is unknown via bash script
I have a directory that contains the backup of many computers using NTFS file system.
/backup/REP1/database
/backup/REP2/database
I now want to scp from the backup file server to the database server,...
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Broken pipe when grepping output, but only with -i flag
I'm trying to see if a certain python-library is installed by grepping the output of pip list. If I try this
pip list | grep -q $package, it works fine. If I try pip list | grep -qi $package, I get ...
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yum case (in)sensitive
As far as I know, yum list is case insensitive, while yum install and yum remove are case sensitive -- probably as a security feature to prevent unintended system changes.
Is there a way to change ...
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bash case-insensitive commands matching
Is it possible for bash to find commands in a case-insensitive way?
eg. these command lines will always run python:
python
Python
PYTHON
pyThoN
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OS X filesystem case insensitivity corrupts vlc command
vlc -I rc from OS X Terminal bash prompt returns error:
VLC media player 2.2.3 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.3-3-g0777f11)
[0000000100233778] core libvlc error: No plugins found! Check your VLC ...
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How do I view the case-sensitive file names of iso9660/Joliet+UCS-3 volumes?
I have an ISO that I am trying to use to install software via Wine. I have the ISO mounted as a loopback device. The Windows installer keeps complaining that it cannot locate particular CAB files and ...
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delete line that contains a case insensitive match
I have a file that contains information as so:
20 BaDDOg
31 baddog
42 badCAT
43 goodDoG
44 GOODcAT
and I want to delete all lines that contain the word dog. This is my desired output:
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sort and uniq commands not running as expected when run though cron
Below is a part of script which gives proper output when run manually
but gives incorrect output when run using cron:
sort < file1.out | uniq -ic |sort -nr> file2.out
When run on the command ...
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Surround a pattern, not changing it, while searching for it case-insensitively
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I haven't found anything so far.
Here's the thing: I have a string and a pattern, and want to surround the pattern inside the string with brackets.
While I ...
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Is the username in Unix case sensitive?
Is ssh abc@servername different from ssh Abc@servername? Does the case of the username matter in Unix?
My user authenticates via LDAP.
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bash - ignore case but disallow autocomplete if ambiguous
Recently i face inconvenient when using bash auto complete with ignore case.
Let's say i have this directories:
[xiaobai@xiaobai test]$ l
total 20K
3407873 drwx------. 60 xiaobai xiaobai 4.0K May 25 ...
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How do case-insensitive filesystems display both upper and lower case file names?
This question occurred to me the other day when I was working on a development project that relies on an opinionated framework with regard to file names. The framework (irrelevant here) wanted to see ...
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Batch rename “case duplicates”
I have a folder on my Linux system that is cross-synchronized with other computers, some of them with Windows. The problem is that in that folder there are files that are "case duplicates", i.e. their ...
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Finding duplicate files by name ignoring the case in subdirectories
How is it possible to list duplicate file names on a Linux system
ignoring the case
including all subdirectories
Files should not be compared by their content but only by their names.
The output ...
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Why can Shell builtins not be run with capital letters but other commands can?
Why is this?
When I do this
CD ~/Desktop
It doesn't take me to the Desktop. But this:
echo "foo
bar" | GREP bar
gives me:
bar
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Can I force `man` to do lower case sensitive matching?
When I search man pages, the search is case sensitive, but only with regard to upper case letters. E.g., x will match x and X whereas X only matches x. This is the man-db version of man, used on ...
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Paradox about a-z vs A-Z
I wrote a shell script to recognize the type of character
printf "Enter a character: "
read var
case "$var" in
[a-z])
echo "You entered a lower case alphabet."
;;
[A-Z])
echo "...
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How to prepare files for rsync on a case insensitive filesystem?
I am transferring a large number of files on a HFS+ filesystem.
The files are currently on ext2 partitions.
I have conflicts due to case insensitivity of the target partition (HFS+).
I want to ...
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grep: Ignoring GREP_OPTIONS to search case-sensitive
I have set GREP_OPTIONS="--ignore-case --color" in ~/.bashrc as I normally want grep to work case-insensitive. However, there are times when I need grep to actually search case-sensitive, but the man ...
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`echo -e 'Q\ns\nV' | sort` doesn't sort
Why do :
$ echo -e 'Q\ns\nV' | sort
outputs
Q
s
V
without changing the order of my list (taking in account the lower/uppercase ?)
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How to uppercase the command line argument?
I searched SO and found that to uppercase a string following would work
str="Some string"
echo ${str^^}
But I tried to do a similar thing on a command-line argument, which gave me the following ...
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How to match case insensitive patterns with ls?
I would like to list all files matching a certain pattern while ignoring the case.
For example, I run the following commands:
ls *abc*
I want to see all the files that have "abc" as a part of the ...
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Case-insensitive file system for production server?
The initial situation looks like this:
The corporate software is PHP-based.
It is delivered by Apache 2 on a Windows 2003 Server.
It is big.
It is a legacy of rather unprofessional developers who did ...
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Case-preserving search and replace in vim?
In vim, I know I can search with or without case sensitivity. But if I want to search for a string in either upper or lower case, and replace it with a replacement of the same case, is that possible ...
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case-insensitive search of duplicate file-names
I there a way to find all files in a directory with duplicate filenames, regardless of the casing (upper-case and/or lower-case)?
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change entire directory tree to lower-case names
I'm working on a website conversion. The files as they were linked and served from the web server were case insensitive. But, I've made a dump of the site on my linux system and I'm writing scripts to ...
