December 23rd, 2009
3:30 pm
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You can use the find command to do a wildcard search for files.
For example, the following will do a wild card name search :-
lynx / # find -name 'epdfview' ./home/mms/.config/epdfview ./usr/bin/epdfview ./usr/share/epdfview lynx / #
The default is to search the current folder and all subfolders. You can search for a number of other fields as well as name, and there are lots of other options, see here
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