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Command find (Search file(s) with wildcards)

Franco Corbelli edited this page Sep 2, 2023 · 2 revisions

Searching by filename is relatively difficult, or rather inconvenient, on Linux.
There is no command actually dedicated to finding files, other than find redirected to some grep etc

On Windows subfolder search get awkward output, for example

dir c:\zpaqfranz\zpaqfranz.cpp /s
(...)
 Il volume nell'unità C non ha etichetta.
 Numero di serie del volume: 1234-5678

 Directory di c:\zpaqfranz

02/09/2023  16:35         3.337.783 zpaqfranz.cpp
               1 File      3.337.783 byte

 Directory di c:\zpaqfranz\bsd\candidato\caricasito

09/08/2022  18:25         1.093.847 zpaqfranz.cpp
               1 File      1.093.847 byte

 Directory di c:\zpaqfranz\ncurses

28/03/2023  21:35         4.922.480 zpaqfranz.cpp
               1 File      4.922.480 byte

 Directory di c:\zpaqfranz\ncurses\ok4

14/03/2023  17:09         4.411.567 zpaqfranz.cpp
               1 File      4.411.567 byte

Don't worry, zpaqfranz to the rescue!

C:\zpaqfranz>zpaqfranz find c:\zpaqfranz -only *zpaqfranz.cpp
zpaqfranz v58.10a-JIT-GUI-L,HW BLAKE3,SHA1/2,SFX64 v55.1,(2023-08-25)
franz:find                                      j - command
franz:-only                        *zpaqfranz.cpp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
franz:-hw
c:/zpaqfranz/bsd/candidato/caricasito/zpaqfranz.cpp        1.093.847)
c:/zpaqfranz/ncurses/ok4/zpaqfranz.cpp
(...)
c:/zpaqfranz/release/54_10/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/54_11/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/54_12/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/54_12j/zpaqfranz.cpp
(...)
c:/zpaqfranz/release/58_9/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/bsd/caricasito/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/bsd55_9/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/exe/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/fedora/zpaqfranz/ugo/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/proxmox/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/release/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/trail/zpaqfranz.cpp
c:/zpaqfranz/zpaqfranz.cpp
======================================================================================
Files 55 for 162.523.555 bytes (154.99 MB)

0.062 seconds (00:00:00) (all OK)
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