The FIND primary command is used to find and display the next occurrence of a character string in the list of file names. Use this format:

                 .-NEXT--.   
>>-FIND--string--+-ALL---+-------------------------------------><
                 +-FIRST-+   
                 +-LAST--+   
                 '-PREV--'   

The command can be abbreviated as F.

For example, this command would tell ISPF to find all occurrences of the character string dat1:

F dat1 ALL

For more information about the operands used with this command, see FIND—find character strings.

ISPF automatically scrolls to bring the character string to the top of the directory list. To repeat the search without re-entering the character string, use the RFIND command.