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hasenj on March 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: In defense of Unix

I actually do this instead:

    find . | grep "\.txt$"

rejap on March 5, 2016 [–]

once you mentioned it, the original commands which are compared are not equivalent. Dir does case insensitive search, find is case sensitive. The equivalent would be:

  find . | grep -i "\.txt$"

Tiksi on March 7, 2016 | [–]

You can do a case insensitive search with -iname: find . -iname "*.txt"

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