Find all files with name containing string [closed]

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

grep -R "somestring" | cut -d ":" -f 1

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

The -maxdepth option should be before the -name option, like below.,

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "string" -print

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

find / -exec grep -lR "{test-string}" {} \;