How can I recursively find all files in current and subfolders based on wildcard matching

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Piping find into grep is often more convenient; it gives you the full power of regular expressions for arbitrary wildcard matching.

For example, to find all files with case insensitive string "foo" in the filename:

~$ find . -print | grep -i foo

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for file search find   -xdev -name settings xml   --  whole computer find    -xdev -name settings xml  --  current directory  amp  its sub directory for files with extension type  find   -type f -name    iso

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find  lt directory path gt   -type f -name   lt wildcard-match gt     In the wildcard-match you can provide the string you wish to match e g    c  for all c files

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You can use       find   -type f  -name  text for search    If you want use REGX use -iname    find   -type f  -iname  text for search

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With Python gt 3 5  using glob    pointing to your current folder and looking for  txt files   python -c  quot import glob  print x  for x in glob glob        txt   recursive True   quot   For older versions of Python  you can install glob2

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If your shell supports a new globbing option  can be enabled by  shopt -s globstar   you can use   echo     foo    to find any files or folders recursively  This is supported by Bash 4  zsh and similar shells     Personally I ve got this shell function defined   f     find   -name    1        Note  Above line can be pasted directly to shell or added into your user s    bashrc file   Then I can look for any files by typing   f some name   Alternatively you can use a fd utility with a simple syntax  e g  fd pattern

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fd  In case  find is too slow  try fd utility - a simple and fast alternative to find written in Rust   Syntax   fd PATTERN   Demo     Homepage  https   github com sharkdp fd

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Below command helps to search for any files  1  Irrespective of case 2  Result Excluding folders without permission 3  Searching from the root or from the path you like  Change   with the path you prefer   Syntax    find  -iname      2  amp 1   grep -v  Permission denied  Example     find   -iname  C  xml    2  amp 1   grep -v  Permission denied    find   -iname   C  xml    2 gt  amp 1   grep -v  Permission denied

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find will find all files that match a pattern   find   -name   foo    However  if you want a picture   tree -P   foo    Hope this helps

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This will search all the related files in current and sub directories  calculating their line count separately as well as totally   find   -name    wanted    xargs wc -l

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find -L   -name  foo     In a few cases  I have needed the -L parameter to handle symbolic directory links   By default symbolic links are ignored   In those cases it was quite confusing as I would change directory to a sub-directory and see the file matching the pattern but find would not return the filename   Using -L solves that issue   The symbolic link options for find are -P -L -H

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I am surprised to see that locate is not used heavily when we are to go recursively   I would first do a locate   PWD  to get the list of files in the current folder of interest  and then run greps on them as I please   locate   PWD    grep -P  lt pattern gt    Of course  this is assuming that the updatedb is done and the index is updated periodically  This is much faster way to find files than to run a find and asking it go down the tree   Mentioning this for completeness   Nothing against using find  if the tree is not very heavy

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Default way to search for recursive file  and available in most cases is  find   -name  filepattern    It starts recursive traversing for filename  or pattern from within current directory where you are positioned  With find command  you can use wildcards  and various switches  to see full list of options  type  man find   or if man pages aren t available at your system  find --help   However  there are more modern and faster tools then find  which are traversing your whole filesystem and indexing your files  one such common tool is locate or slocate mlocate  you should check manual of your OS on how to install it  and once it s installed it needs to initiate database  if install script don t do it for you  it can be done manually by typing  sudo updatedb   And  to use it to look for some particular file type  locate filename   Or  to look for filename or patter from within current directory  you can type    pwd   xargs -n 1 -I    locate  filepattern    It will look through its database of files and quickly print out path names that match pattern that you have typed  To see full list of locate s options  type  locate --help or man locate  Additionally you can configure locate to update it s database on scheduled times via cron job  so sample cron which updates db at 1AM would look like   0 1       updatedb   These cron jobs need to be configured by root  since updatedb needs root privilege to traverse whole filesystem

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Use find for that   find   -name  foo     find needs a starting point  and the    dot  points to the current directory

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Following command will list down all the files having exact name  pattern   for example  in current and its sub folders    find    -name  pattern

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If you want to search special file with wildcard  you can used following code   find   -type f -name    conf    Suppose  you want to search every  conf files from here       means search started from here  current place  -type means type of search item that here is file  f   -name means you want to search files with   conf names

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Use  find path to dir -name    ext1  -o -name    ext2    Explanation   The first parameter is the directory you want to search  By default find does recursion  The -o stands for -or  So above means search for this wildcard OR this one  If you have only one pattern then no need for -o  The quotes around the wildcard pattern are required

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