Unix command to find all files

 

I need a unix command to list all files that contains 'foo' in their name ? We have two commands that do that : grep command and find command !! what's the best?

Thanks

The find command by itself suffices (unless you want to include files in directories whose name includes "foo"): 

find / -type f -name '*foo*'

That checks the leaf name (last part) of the pathnames. If you piped the result of find through grep in a similar way: 

find / -type f | grep foo

it would match those files, as well as all files (and directories) inside directories whose name includes "foo".

To filter the list in a more interesting way, you can use grep , which supports regular expressions and other features. For example, you could do 

find / -type f | grep -i foo

to match "foo" ignoring case.

But if you want to look at the contents of files, that is grep-specific: 

find / -type f -exec grep foo {} +

Further reading:

  • find
  • grep

    • Use find to list all files on the system.

    Pair that up with grep to search for a specific file name.

    like this: 

    find / -type f -exec grep -i -r "*foo*" {}
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