Written by Scott Johnson on Apr 05, 2011

This post is part of a series we authored on another site which has since gone offline; Quick Unix Find Example was originally published on August 19th, 2009.

Let's say that you know only a few characters of a filename, lets say the word 'billing' and want to find any matching files. Here's a quick unix command:

find ./ -maxdepth 10 -name "*billing*"

See Also: More tips on find.