How can I search a wild card name in all subfolders?

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How can I search a wild card name in all subfolders? What would be the equivalent of DOS command: dir *pattern* /s in *nix?

Ryan A. · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-11 16:11:35Z

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You can use find. If, for example, you wanted to find all files and directories that had abcd in the filename, you could run:

find . -name '*abcd*'

answered Sep 11 '12 at 16:11

Ryan A.
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Gilles · Answer 2 · 2012-09-12 02:04:19Z

Zsh:

ls -l **/*abcd*

Ksh:

set -o globstar     # put this line in your ~/.kshrc
ls -l **/*abcd*

Bash ≥4:

shopt -s globstar   # put this line in your ~/.bashrc
ls -l **/*abcd*

Portable (except to very old systems; OpenBSD took a long time but finally supports exec … + since 5.1):

find . -name '*abcd*' -exec ls -l {} +

Not POSIX but works on *BSD, Linux, Cygwin, BusyBox:

find -name '*abcd*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

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