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Emerson Gutierrez
Emerson Gutierrez
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Posted by Emerson Gutierrez
Emerson Gutierrez
5,780 Points

Is there any way to search for a part of the file name?

With find . -name "search" I can find a file by it's filename, but there is a way to find a file that I know o remember only part of it's name?

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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Yes. Use * for wildcard

find -name "sea*"

This will find anything starting from sea

you can get fancy and do it both ways

find -name "*se*"