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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:19:22 +0800
From: Amankwah <amankwah7@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote:
> I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file:
> 
> foo*.txt
> 
> but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out
> how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
> 
> - Grant

How about this?

find -name foo*.txt ?