Linux find file names with given string recursively

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I m on Ubuntu  and I d like to find all files in the current directory and subdirectories whose name contains the string  quot John quot   I know that grep can match the content of the files  but I have no idea how to use it with file names

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use ack its simple  just type ack  lt string to be searched gt

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The find command will take long time because it scans real files in file system   The quickest way is using locate command  which will give result immediately   locate  John    If the command is not found  you need to install mlocate package and run updatedb command first to prepare the search database for the first time   More detail here  https   medium com  thucnc the-fastest-way-to-find-files-by-filename-mlocate-locate-commands-55bf40b297ab

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Use the find command  find   -type f -name  quot  John  quot

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This is a very simple solution using the tree command in the directory you want to search for  -f shows the full file path and   is used to pipe the output of tree to grep to find the file containing the string filename in the name   tree -f   grep filename

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A correct answer has already been supplied  but for you to learn how to help yourself I thought I d throw in something helpful in a different way  if you can sum up what you re trying to achieve in one word  there s a mighty fine help feature on Linux   man -k  lt your search term gt    What that does is to list all commands that have your search term in the short description   There s usually a pretty good chance that you will find what you re after      That output can sometimes be somewhat overwhelming  and I d recommend narrowing it down to the executables  rather than all available man-pages  like so   man -k find   egrep    1      or  if you also want to look for commands that require higher privilege levels  like this   man -k find   egrep     18

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