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2.1 Name

Here are ways to search for files whose name matches a certain pattern. See Shell Pattern Matching, for a description of the pattern arguments to these tests.

Each of these tests has a case-sensitive version and a case-insensitive version, whose name begins with i. In a case-insensitive comparison, the patterns fo* and F?? match the file names Foo, FOO, foo, fOo, etc.