Amankwah (Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:19:22 +0800): > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote: > > I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: > > > > foo*.txt > > > > but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out > > how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right > > direction? > > > > - Grant > > How about this? > > find -name foo*.txt ?
+1 to this solution. Only, it may destroy the universe on some rare occasions. A safer way: find / -type f -name 'foo*.txt' -rz
