Re: Searching for IFS directory

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Larry - and John,

Wonder why the iname option is not supported.

 
Jon Paris

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On Nov 10, 2014, at 5:49 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> find . -name "*apt*" -exec ls -lad {} \;
>
> You can replace the . with / but that will tell it to start at the top of the root directory and will take "some minutes" as it will search QSYS.LIB as well.
>
>        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
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> On 11/10/2014 4:01 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
> > I’m trying to locate a directory in the IFS with a specific name (or a specific set of characters in the name).
> >
> > The find command seemed to be what I I was looking for but it is not working for me. According to some Unix sites the option I need to make it case insensitive is iname like so:
> >
> > find  / -type d -iname "apt" -ls
> >
> > But it is rejected in PASE (and QShell) as an invalid option.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what alternatives I can use?  I only want directories - not files.
> >
> >
> > Jon Paris
> >
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> > www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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