I have multiple zip files in a directory and its sub directories with the pattern ACCT_DOC. example T.6593.ACCT_DOC.1054.1_0.20170220.111425.zip T.12561.ACCT_DOC.1003.1_0.20160121.221947.zip I need a list of all the files matching the pattern *ACCT_DOC* that were created today. The YYYYMMDD is part of the file naming convention i tried using find . -type f -name '*ACCT_DOC.`date '+%Y%m%d'`*.zip' but it is not working. Please help