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[bug #32976] find has no option to ignore case of starting directories


From: Linda A. Walsh
Subject: [bug #32976] find has no option to ignore case of starting directories
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:25:49 +0000
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32976>

                 Summary: find has no option to ignore case of starting
directories
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: law
            Submitted on: Sat 02 Apr 2011 02:25:46 PM PDT
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

While find has options to ignore case on the linkname, name and regex options,
there is nothing that will allow it to ignore case for the starting path
options.

I don't understand why case ignore was provided on 3 of the name match options
(-name, -regex, -lname), but left off the 4th (starting name).  Seems like a
gaping design hole to do it in in 75% of the name match options, but leave it
off the 4th.

The need to fix inconsistent user interface options, IMO, should have been a
high-priority item as soon as it was decided to implement that feature for the
other options.  

However, given the rise in the use of linux servers for windows, it can only
be that its priority would be even higher now.






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