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find procedure

find Procedure

Search for files whose names match a glob pattern. Search subdirectories recursively, starting at a particular root directory. The result is the list of files whose names match. Filenames in the result include all intervening subdirectory names. If no files match the pattern, then an empty string is returned.

find rootdir pattern

rootdir

The top level directory to start the search from.

pattern

A glob pattern representing the files to find.