find command help needed
 

Hi, as I can not find a good guide on this I have these questions.

How is a search done with cli that will search for multiple and or partial strings in a file name? let's say I want to find a text file that has two different words or either one of two words and or partial pieces of these words. How is this done?

Thanks for your expertise!

Hmm, a messy one

I think the -o flag will do it

Since you don't give 'real' examples

Would find

Poorbreifoobar
barofbadrequest
foobar
Wouldnotreturnthis


you need to provide a better brief ..

One or two words, or partial match?

when is a partial going to not match the full?

Oops of not or
Still .. need real example (input and desired output) to understand

Hi,


recursively search the current directory for files with "foo" or "bar" in their names:
Evo2.

Thanks for the help! I looked at both (man find) and find --help. Ugh!!!!

What I'm doing is creating a directory that is full of linux notes/guides and their links because I find myself with 100 browser windows open at once. The html pages are a pain so I'm just copy and pasting them to gedit. If I want to see the original guide/tutorial , I still have the link.

Lets say I'm creating text docs and some are titled (systemd\logging) and some are (rsyslogd\logging) because of the contents of the guide/tutorial. If I want to get some info on logging I don't have to remember about (sysemd logging) because a bash search command would bring it up. I think that this is a better solution than to have a bunch of folders because some of the text files would be in one or the other as in systemd or logging. I'm making my own linux guide data base in a way. Sometimes good webpages get removed and this way I still have most of the info that they contained.

Hmm..

Web browser bookmarks?

And the man and info commands have always been usefull to me

I less understand the brief


Maybe you need

( as an example)



I don't understand what you want/need
your latest post had left me even more uncertain

The asterisks and the Boolean Or did the the trick so I thank you both for that. To explain my purpose for this ,imagine you have so many text files in a directory; that you can't separate well into folders, and you want to find any and all text files you named with log in it. Examples are systemd-logging, LogGuides, linuxLogging. The find command and your advice cut down on manually sorting text files to consider.

Thanks this will help me a lot!

ok, assuming many files in one directory


You can then use command sequence ":n" for next file ":p" for previous (no "")

man less

For more details on the many commands