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How can I search a file by its name and partial path?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 2026155811 views
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Often I have a file name and it's partial path, e.g. "content/docs/file.xml". Is there a simple way to search for that file, without manually cutting into parts its name to provide directory name and file name separately? It'd be great if worked in that way, so I could run , but unfortunately it doesn't.

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Pass in a wildcard to indicate a match for anything. You also need to escape the s, e.g.: or enclose the pattern in quotes, e.g.: As the man page describes it: $ find . -name *.c -print find: paths must precede expression This happens because *.c has been expanded by the shell resulting in find actually receiving a command line like this: find . -name bigram.c code.c frcode.c locate.c -print That command is of course not going to work. Instead of doing things this way, you should enclose the pa…

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