How can I recursively find all files in the current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?

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How can I recursively find all files in the current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?

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You can use the find command in Unix-like systems to recursively find files based on wildcard matching. Here’s how you can do it:

To find files starting with “foo” in the current and subfolders:

find . -name “foo*”

The . (dot) specifies the starting directory as the current directory.

If you need a case-insensitive search, you can use the -iname option:

find . -iname “foo*”

This will find files starting with “foo” regardless of case.

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You can also find with -exec to perform wildcard matching. This command finds all files (-type f) in the current and subfolders, extracts their basenames (basename {}), and then filters them using grep to match those starting with “foo”.

find . -type f -exec basename {} \; | grep '^foo'

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Also, try using ls with recursive globbing (requires Bash 4+). This command enables recursive globbing (shopt -s globstar) and then lists all files and directories matching the pattern “foo*” in the current and subfolders. Note that this method may not handle all edge cases, such as filenames with spaces.

shopt -s globstar ls -d */foo