How to ls all the files in the subdirectories using wildcard?

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ls * can list all the files in the subdirectories.

ls *.pdb can only list all the files with extension pdb in the current directory.

So how to list all the files with extension pdb in the subdirectories?

My subdirectories are named as 1, 2, 3, .... I would like the output also include the directory information, so that I can use the output as an ensemble of input files. For example, the output should be like:

1/a.pdb 1/b.pdb 1/c.pdb 2/a.pdb 2/b.pdb 2/c.pdb 3/a.pdb 3/b.pdb 3/c.pdb

ls */*.pdb. You can also enable dotglob and use ** as the wildcard for all subdirectores (with bash). Otherwise, you use find -type f -name "*.pdb" to locate all .pdb files in nested subdirectories. — David C. Rankin
– David C. Rankin, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 20:15
Or use find, if you have more than 1 level of subdirectories: find . -name \*.pdb — Robert
– Robert, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 20:23
Possible duplicate of How to recursively search for files with certain extensions?, Recursively look for files with a specific extension, How to list specific type of files in recursive directories in shell?, List all files in a directory with a certain extension, List files with certain extensions with ls and grep, etc — jww
– jww, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 22:16

Gilles Quénot · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-26 21:24:38Z

3 solutions :

Simple `glob`

ls */*.pdb

Recursive using bash

shopt -s globstar ls **/*.pdb

Recursive using find

find . -type f -name '*.pdb'

Lapasorsa · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-26 22:44:56Z

Try this too:

locate */*.pdb

Its for previously made database

You can see the difference, if you code some Python and right after that use both

locate */*.py ls */*.py

You can't be sure that updatedb have been executed before, and it's mandatory to create index

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