[SOLVED] howto: looking for a file under directory

[acid_rider]

hello everyone

I am new to Linux/Unix. I am looking for Windows Search equivalent looking for file name patterns (not file contents but file names)....

I am aware of "globbing" and wildcard recursive search functionality in ls but I am still not capable of finding files under directories.

for example: I want to find all files starting with a string lsnr* under root directory / and any sub-directories.....

ie I want to look for files like lsnr*.* anywhere under / and any sub-directories under / such as /dir1/dir2/dir4 and dir1/other/dir/someotherdir/sub-dir etc.

so if I have /dir1/lsnrcontrol and also have /dir1/dir/2/dir3/lsnr-tinit.dat then I want to list the files names etc.

I can not figure out how to do this using ls -R and wildcards. What am I doing wrong?

thanks in advance

[acid_rider]

sorry, I asked too soon.... found out how just now.....


find / -name lsnr*

above bash command seems to work

thanks for reading thus far.... apologies for creating noise here.