Centos – how to find a filename with all the possible extensions

findregex

I need to perform a search for "foo" and return all the filenames/directories with this name (e.g. foo.php, foo.txt etc). It should run through the whole filesystem and find even hidden files.
I've tried find / -name 'foo' but doesn't seem to work.

Best Answer

find's -name operator uses shell-style wildcards, so

find / -name 'foo.*' -o -name '.foo.*'

would find foo.php foo.txt or hidden files like .foo.php etc. -o means "Or", without it a file would have to have both names. Use -iname if you want case insensitive matching.

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Bash – Replace Wildcard Character in Filenames

Put quotes around $x everywhere it appears.

for x in `find . -regex '.*/\*.*'` ; do mv "$x" `echo "$x" | sed s/\*/_/g` ; done

Rsync – Sync Files Created or Modified After a Specific Date

I'm a little bit confused about what you're trying to do. Rsync, all by itself, will only transfer new/modified files. So if you transport data on a hard drive once/week, you can run rsync periodically and it will no more bandwidth than (and possibly less than) the solution you're proposing using find.

All this work with find seems like you're just duplicating features that are already there.

If you really want to use find, you don't need xargs or xargs-like features; just do this:

find ... -print | rsync ... --files-from=-

Where ... is "whatever other options you feel are appropriate". This causes rsync to read a list of files from stdin.

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