> and finally find -iname 'partofname*' but it is a little slower...

Here is an alias that I find useful:

alias fi        'find . -name ''\*\!*\*'' -print'

so e.g. i can say
   fi tax
and it lists any file in my account that has "tax" somewhere in the filename.
That is for tcsh; if you use bash/zsh then syntax for aliases will be
different.  You may want to change -name to -iname as in Joel's message.
Also as noted by Joel, it tends to chew up a lot of     CPU, so not for
indiscriminate use on shared machines.  Sorry this is kind of late
after the initial question, but I thought it could still be useful.

Randall  (skimming old email)

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