oddity with find -exec grep -i

From: Chris Evans (chris_at_psyctc.org)
Date: 10/31/04

  • Next message: Kuang He: "Re: apt-get cannnot clean cache files" 
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:24:25 -0000

    Perhaps I am looking straight through things, if so, I'm sorry. I
    have effectively a one liner shell script that I want to run to see
    if any text (typically an Email address) is in any file named "users"
    in any directory below a particular directory, easy I thought:

    #!/bin/bash
    /usr/bin/find /usr/lib/ecartis/lists/ -name users -print \
      -exec grep --ignore-case "$1" {} \; | grep -B 1 "$1"

    That little file works fine (the original has the second line all in
    one but seemed best to break it for this post). The only thing is
    that whether I put "--ignore-case" or "-i" it doesn't ignore case. I
    have a "David.hardy" in one file. If I search for that it finds it
    perfectly, but if I put "david.hardy", it doesn't. I've looked at
    man and info and books and I give up and throw myself to the tender
    mercies of the many gurus of this list! What am I doing wrong?!

    Running Debian stable uname -r:
            2.4.18-1-k6
    uname -m
            i586
    bash:
            2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

    TIA

    Chris 

    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Kuang He: "Re: apt-get cannnot clean cache files"