Monthly Archive: January 2010

I conjugated our cat, Tugger:

 presentepretéritofuturoimperativo
yotuggotuggítuggeré 
tútugguestuggistetuggerástuggué
Ud. / él / ellatugguetuggiótuggerátugga
nosotrostugguemostuggimostuggeremostuggamos
Uds. / ellos / ellastugguentuggierontuggerántuggan

That’s right. This is cat blogging at its finest.

I’ve been more aggressive lately about creating helper scripts and aliases for common tasks, and I liked this find helper enough to want to share it. I find that I often do filename searches like this:

find -iname “*some_word*”

That’s not so bad to type, but why not make it even easier for my, and maybe your common usage? We might prefer to do something like this:

findr some_word

And assume that we’re looking for a case-insensitive, substring match. And since we love regular expressions, we can work with find’s regex options:

–regextype posix-egrep -iregex

Which is just begging for a helper to do the work for us in standard situations.

Before we look at the script and some examples, here are a few more considerations for our findr command:

With the -iregex option, the match is against the whole path, so we’ll wrap the supplied regex search term with dot-stars (.*) to loosen things up. We probably want to limit our match to the last item …