I need to search for files starting with some particular name. There can be multiple files starting with a particular pattern and I want to list all such files present in the directory.
To complete existing answers:
lsThe default directory list utility ls can be used in combination with the shell's wildcards . To search for all files with pattern abc:
ls -d abc* # list all files starting with abc---
ls -d *abc* # list all files containing --abc--
ls -d *abc # list all files ending with --abc
Note that the file extension is relevant for the search results too.
treeIn case we need to list files in a directory tree we can also issue tree to search for a given pattern like:
tree -P 'abc*' # list directory tree of file starting with abc---
tree -l 'def*' # exclude files starting with def---
In this case, tree itself supports wildcards.
