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From: johnwrussell AT comcast DOT net
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.5.12:  find with -iregex is case-sensitive
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:09:28 +0000
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I found a workaround:  Remake findutils 4.1.7-4 from source, and use /usr/local/bin/find.exe instead of /usr/bin/find.exe. 

Here's what I did:

$ cd /usr/src/findutils-4.1.7-4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
$ mv /usr/bin/find.exe /usr/bin/find.exe.old
$ cd /bin
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/find.exe

Now the test procedure gives correct case-insensitive results:

$ find test -iregex ".*file.*"
test/file-a
test/File-b


> Even with the -iregex option, the find command performs case-sensitive
> matching. 
> 
> Test procedure:
> 
> $ mkdir test
> $ touch test/file-a
> $ touch test/File-b
> $ find test | grep -i ".*file.*"
> test/file-a
> test/File-b
> 
> $ find test -iregex ".*file.*"
> test/file-a
> 
> $ find test -iregex ".*File.*"
> test/File-b
> 
> I'm using Cygwin 1.5.12-1 under Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600
> Service Pack 1, findutils 20041227-1.

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