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Search for files whose names match pattern (using shell wildcard characters for filename expansion). Search subdirectories recursively, starting at rootdir. The result is the list of files whose names match; if no files match, the result is empty. Filenames in the result include all intervening subdirectory names. If no files match the pattern, then a NULL string is returned.
find{rootdir pattern}
rootdir
The top level directory to start the search from.
pattern
A csh "glob" style regular expression representing the files to find.