The find command lists the names of all the files under a directory with a given characteristic or set of characteristics. The simplest version of the command is:

find dirname

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

To display the names of all files whose names have the form specified in pattern, issue:

find dirname –name pattern

Example: To list the names of all files under the directory abc with the file name extension .lst,issue: (

find abc –name '*.lst'

The asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that stands for any sequence of zero or more characters.l Using find, you can locate files quickly, even when you have a complicated file system structure, with many directories and subdirectories. See the find command description in z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference.