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Re: 'find' from the terminal
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Peter N Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:56:42 +0800
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>Could someone provide me with a working example of 'find' from the 
>terminal using the 'iregex' switch?  I'm getting stymied.

iregex is case insensitive regex.

find /System/Library -iregex ".*/fINDer.app/.*/sPANish.lproj/.*\.strings"

finds all the Spanish strings resources in the Finder app.

Note that the regex is probably not a PCRE, and so is probably more 
limited in what it accepts.

Enjoy,
    Peter.

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