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Finding Files

2.1.2 Full Name Patterns

Test: -path pattern

Test: -ipath pattern

True if the entire file name, starting with the command line argument under which the file was found, matches shell pattern pattern. For `-ipath', the match is case-insensitive. To ignore a whole directory tree, use `-prune' rather than checking every file in the tree (see section 2.9 Directories).

Test: -regex expr

Test: -iregex expr

True if the entire file name matches regular expression expr. This is a match on the whole path, not a search. For example, to match a file named `./fubar3', you can use the regular expression `.*bar.' or `.*b.*3', but not `b.*r3'. See section `Syntax of Regular Expressions' in The GNU Emacs Manual, for a description of the syntax of regular expressions. For `-iregex', the match is case-insensitive.