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Case-insensitive Glob on zsh/bash


ZSH:

$ unsetopt CASE_GLOB

Or, if you don't want to enable case-insensitive globbing in general, you can activate it for only the varying part:

$ print -l (#i)(somelongstring)*

This will match any file that starts with "somelongstring" (in any combination of lower/upper case). The case-insensitive flag applies for everything between the parentheses and can be used multiple times. Read the manual zshexpn(1) for more information.

UPDATEAlmost forgot, you have to enable extendend globbing for this to work:

setopt extendedglob


Depending on how deep you want to have this listing, find offers quite a lotin this regard:

find . -iname 'SomeLongString*' -maxdepth 1

This will only give you the files in the current directory. Important here isthe -iname parameter instead of -name.