Read files with both upper and lower cases

%% Checking data
[File.input.listGit,~] = createsList([dataDirectory '/*.git']);
Is it possible to read files end with either *git or *GIT (insensitive of cases) in matlab (ubunto version).

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The obvious solution is to simply call DIR twice (what your function does we don't know).
If you want every permutation of case for all characters then that would get a bit ... repetitive. Probably at that point you should just use *.* to match all files and then some case-insensitive text matching to select the files that you want.

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In Windows, it will retrieve all the files regardless of the capitalization of the extension or base file name. I'm not sure about Ubuntu though.
fileList = dir('*.gif')
Does that not work for you?
If there is a difference in Ubuntu, you can call dir twice, as @Stephen23 said in his comment above, and then concatenate them as shown below:
fileList1 = dir('*.gif')
fileList2 = dir('*.GIF')
allFiles = [fileList1; fileList2]

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isunix()
ans = logical
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writematrix(1,'lower.txt')
writematrix(2,'UPPER.TXT')
dir *.txt
lower.txt
dir *.TXT
UPPER.TXT
dir *.Txt
No matches for pattern '*.Txt'.

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on 23 Nov 2023

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on 23 Nov 2023

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