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 2.2.1 Base Name Patterns
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  -- Test: -name pattern
  -- Test: -iname pattern
      True if the base of the file name (the path with the leading
      directories removed) matches shell pattern PATTERN.  For '-iname',
      the match is case-insensitive.(1)  To ignore a whole directory
      tree, use '-prune' (⇒Directories).  As an example, to find
      Texinfo source files in '/usr/local/doc':
 
           find /usr/local/doc -name '*.texi'
 
      Notice that the wildcard must be enclosed in quotes in order to
      protect it from expansion by the shell.
 
      As of findutils version 4.2.2, patterns for '-name' and '-iname'
      match a file name with a leading '.'.  For example the command
      'find /tmp -name \*bar' match the file '/tmp/.foobar'.  Braces
      within the pattern ('{}') are not considered to be special (that
      is, 'find . -name 'foo{1,2}'' matches a file named 'foo{1,2}', not
      the files 'foo1' and 'foo2'.
 
      Because the leading directories are removed, the file names
      considered for a match with '-name' will never include a slash, so
      '-name a/b' will never match anything (you probably need to use
      '-path' instead).
 
    ---------- Footnotes ----------
 
    (1) Because we need to perform case-insensitive matching, the GNU
 fnmatch implementation is always used; if the C library includes the GNU
 implementation, we use that and otherwise we use the one from gnulib
 

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