Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> 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 ?

I can't get find to work.  This works:

locate *foo*.txt

but none of these work:

find /my/folder -name foo*.txt
find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt
find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt'

What am I doing wrong?  I do need the find to be recursive in that folder.

- Grant