bashfind

Find all files with a filename beginning with a specified string?

I have a directory with roughly 100000 files in it, and I want to perform some function on all files beginning with a specified string, which may match tens of thousands of files.

I have tried

ls mystring*

but this returns with the bash error 'Too many arguments'. My next plan was to use

find ./mystring* -type f

but this has the same issue.

The code needs to look something like

for FILE in `find ./mystring* -type f`
do
    #Some function on the file
done
Solution

  • Use find with a wildcard:

    find . -name 'mystring*'