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On a Linux server, I need to find all files with a certain file extension in the current directory and all sub-directories.
Previously, I have always used the following command:
find . -type f | grep -i *.php
However, it doesn't find hidden files, for example .myhiddenphpfile.php. The following finds the hidden php files, but not the non-hidden ones:
find . -type f | grep -i \.*.php
How can I find both the hidden and non-hidden php files in the same command?
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find . -type f -name '*.php'
It's better to use iname (case insensitive).
I use this find command to search hidden files:
find /path -type f -iname ".*" -ls
Extracted from: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/03/linux-ver-archivos-ocultos.html
The issue is grep, not the find (try just find . -type f to see what I mean).
If you don't quote the * then the shell will expand it - before grep even sees its command line arguments; since the shell doesn't find hidden files by default, you'll have issues.
The reason it's only finding the hidden file is because the shell has already expanded the * and so grep is only matching that one file.
