help using find command

[stsnoopy]

Hey y'all. I have a problem that i'm working on that would be very helpful if you guys could help me, or give me hints on what i'm doing wrong..

The question is asking for me to list all files from the first 9 days of August..

to list all the days of august all I do is

find/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug

to find all the files from the first 9 days of august, I thought i would just do

find/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug -name Aug0*

Which works, but then I noticed that there are files

/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug01.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug02.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug03.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug04.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug05.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug06.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug07.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug08.csv
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/Aug09.csv

but I also need these files...

/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug01.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug02.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug03.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug04.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug05.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug06.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug07.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug08.xls
/usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug/aug09.xls

how would i make it so I search for Aug0* and aug0*

any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

Solved , find /usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug -name [Aa]ug0*

[alf55]

In Unix (and Linux) the shell expands wildcards not the application. In this case, you wish to give a wildcard as an argument. This is a normal situation when using "find". To prevent the shell from expanding it you need to put it inside single quotes. As far as getting both upper and lower cased "A" you will nedd to use:

find  /usr/local/tmp/election2008/Aug  -name  '[Aa]ug0*'