using ls to find specific files from https://askubuntu.com/questions/225621/how-to-search-for-all-the-files-starting-with-the-name-abc-in-a-directory
To complete existing answers:
ls
The default directory list utility ls can be used in combination with the shell's wildcards . To search for all files with pattern abc:
ls abc* # list all files starting with abc---
ls *abc* # list all files containing --abc--
ls *abc # list all files ending with --abc
Note that the file extension is relevant for the search results too.
tree Install banshee
In case we need to list files in a directory tree we can also issue tree to search for a given pattern like:
tree -P 'abc*' # list directory tree of file starting with abc---
tree -l 'def*' # exclude files starting with def---
In this case, tree itself supports wildcards.