find option like grep?

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hi,

The command find is useful but its options' semantics make it slow.

dis crazy:

'libavcodec*' or '*foo*'

Does find have an option for fuzzy search like grep? And banish quotes entirely.

The ideal option, for certain stuff is this:

find ./ -iname 'portion of file name' (without the quotes)

the following example:

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I am not aware that find (alone) can do what you are after. Having said that, I think there are two options to achieve what you want:

In case you wanna get rid of the the quoting mechanism and use parts of a file name as the matching criteria, you could use output redirection into a file and then grep that file or, in case you want everything in one command, pipe find's output directly to grep (which I'd prefer). That should not be too slow if you instruct find to only print out the names of files (it would just traverse every directory and print the file names which is actually pretty fast) and let grep do the search for the 'portion of file name' as you have put it. If there's no terminal output involved, this is very fast indeed.

If, on the other hand, you are after more flexibility in the search pattern (like grep's regular expressions) then you could combine