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I am using UnxUtils on Windows and it comes with the find tool. I am using it to search for files and directories. If I wish to search for a file name which contains the word 'Identity', I use the following (for a case insensitive search)

find <location> -type f -iname "*Identity*"

and the following for searching directory names

find <location> -type d -iname "*Identity*"

I wish to search for both files and directories using a single command (to replace windows search). Is this possible using find ? Is there any native Windows tool which I can use instead to do a search on the command line ? The Windows commands FIND and FINDSTR are like the Unix grep and do not really help.

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find <location> -iname "*Identity*" -ls

Searches for all files and folders in the given location (recursively). The -iname flag for a case insensitive search and the -ls flag to give an ls like output listing enabling us to know the file types.

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Just remove the type specification.

find <location> -iname "*Identity*"
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  • Thanks ! Is there any way to indicate that they are directories in the result ?
    – Stormshadow
    Jul 27, 2010 at 13:34
  • Looking at the man page, I noticed I can use the -ls flag for this purpose.
    – Stormshadow
    Jul 27, 2010 at 13:44

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