Using the Shell

The shell command find searches a directory and lists the names of all the files having a given characteristic or set of characteristics. The simplest version of the command is:

find dirname

which displays the names of all files under the given directory, including files in subdirectories under the directory.

find dirname –name pattern

displays the names of all files whose names have the form specified in pattern. For example,

find abc –name '*.lst'

lists the names of all files under the directory abc with the file name extension .lst. (The asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that stands for any sequence of zero or more characters.) Using find, you can locate files quickly, even when you have many directories and subdirectories. For more information on the find command, see z/VM: OpenExtensions Commands Reference.