Find all files with name containing string

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I have been searching for a command that will return files from the current directory which contain a string in the filename  I have seen locate and find commands that can find files beginning with something first word  or ending with something   jpg    How can I return a list of files which contain a string in the filename    For example  if 2012-06-04-touch-multiple-files-in-linux markdown was a file in the current directory    How could I return this file and others containing the string touch  Using a command such as find   touch

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If the string is at the beginning of the name  you can do this    compgen -f  bash  bashrc  bash profile  bash prompt

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Use find   find   -maxdepth 1 -name   string   -print  It will find all files in the current directory  delete maxdepth 1 if you want it recursive  containing  string  and will print it on the screen   If you want to avoid file containing      you can type   find   -maxdepth 1 -name   string     -name       -print  If you want to use grep  but I think it s not necessary as far as you don t want to check file content  you can use   ls   grep touch  But  I repeat  find is a better and cleaner solution for your task

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An alternative to the many solutions already provided is making use of the glob      When you use bash with the option globstar  shopt -s globstar  or you make use of zsh  you can just use the glob    for this      bar   does a recursive directory search for files named bar  potentially including the file bar in the current directory   Remark that this cannot be combined with other forms of globbing within the same path segment  in that case  the   operators revert to their usual effect   Note that there is a subtle difference between zsh and bash here  While bash will traverse soft-links to directories  zsh will not  For this you have to use the glob      in zsh

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find  HOME -name  hello c  -print   This will search the whole  HOME  i e   home username   system for any files named    hello c    and display their pathnames    Users user Downloads hello c  Users user hello c   However  it will not match HELLO C or HellO C  To match is case insensitive pass the -iname option as follows   find  HOME -iname  hello c  -print   Sample outputs    Users user Downloads hello c  Users user Downloads Y Hello C  Users user Downloads Z HELLO c  Users user hello c   Pass the -type f option to only search for files   find  dir to search -type f -iname  fooBar conf sample  -print find  HOME -type f -iname  fooBar conf sample  -print   The -iname works either on GNU or BSD  including OS X  version find command  If your version of find command does not supports -iname  try the following syntax using grep command   find  HOME   grep -i  hello c  find  HOME -name     -print   grep -i  hello c    OR try  find  HOME -name   hH  eE  lL  lL  oO   cC   -print   Sample outputs    Users user Downloads Z HELLO C  Users user Downloads Z HEllO c  Users user Downloads hello c  Users user hello c

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find   -exec grep -lR   test-string

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grep -R  somestring    cut -d     -f 1

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The -maxdepth option should be before the -name option  like below    find   -maxdepth 1 -name  string  -print

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Use grep as follows   grep -R  touch      -R means recurse  If you would rather not go into the subdirectories  then skip it   -i means  ignore case   You might find this worth a try as well

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