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Finding Files

2.1.1 Base Name Patterns

Test: -name pattern

Test: -iname pattern

True if the base of the file name (the path with the leading directories removed) matches shell pattern pattern. For `-iname', the match is case-insensitive. To ignore a whole directory tree, use `-prune' (see section 2.9 Directories). As an example, to find Texinfo source files in `/usr/local/doc':

find /usr/local/doc -name '*.texi'