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Sangjoon Lee
Sangjoon Lee

Reputation: 31

How to list filenames containing a specific string

I've been searching for commands that would print the list of filenames that contain a specific string, regardless if the string is part of a bigger string.

So for instance, say there's a directory with files "DABC.txt", "ABC.txt", "ABC", and "CDA.txt". Then if I want to search for all filenames that contain the word "ABC", the command I'm looking for should print out "DABC.txt", "ABC.txt", and "ABC".

I thought find -name would work here, but it only prints out filenames with an exact string that matches the keyword; it does not print out filenames that contain the keyword as a part of a string of the filename, not the whole string by itself. (Like "DABC.txt")

Would there be an alternative for this? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6553

Answers (1)

Strick
Strick

Reputation: 1642

its pretty simple

list files using ls ss64, man7

ls -lrt *ABC*

list directory using ls

ls -ld *ABC*

using ls and grep

ls -l | grep -i "ABC"

using find command

find . -name '*abc*'

using case insensitive search in find

find . -iname '*abc*'

Upvotes: 2

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