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LPI certification 101 exam prep, Part 2
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3. FHS and finding files
  


Ignoring case with find page 12 of 21


Of course, you might want to ignore case in your search:


$ find /usr/share/doc -name '[Rr][Ee][Aa][Dd][Mm][Ee]*'

Or, more simply:


$ find /usr/share/doc -iname readme\*

As you can see, you can use -iname to do case-insensitive searching.


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