How to find a file containing a string? [duplicate]

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How can I find a file whose name includes a given string, such as “abcde”?

How to find files in terminal that contains the string "foo"?

I tried the following but doesn't work.

find *foo*.*  // any character before or after "foo" of any extension.

I tried googling UNIX or bash wild card but doesn't provide me any useful result.

Are you looking for files with foo in their name, or files that contain the string foo somewhere in their contents? BTW, there are hundreds of resources on the use of find here and on the Internet. I'm pretty sure you can find your question answered (whether it's file name or file contents) if you search a bit more.
I think you could have found this without any effort. find . -name '*foo*'

panaroik · Answer 1 · 2012-09-19 09:25:46Z

Comment from @ire_and_curses would be almost correct, but it will not find any files like Foo,fOo, ... This would be better in your case:

from find man page:
-iname pattern
     Like -name, but the match is case insensitive.

find <path> -iname '*foo*'

JiBé · Answer 2 · 2012-09-19 11:18:21Z

up vote -3 down vote

sorry I didn't understand the question. You should try

find . -name '*foo*'

as specified above

edited Sep 19 '12 at 11:18

answered Sep 19 '12 at 10:57

JiBé
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marked as duplicate by Mat, manatwork, warl0ck, rahmu, Renan Sep 19 '12 at 11:37