How to recursively search for files with certain extensions?

Question

I need to find all the .psd files on my Linux system (dedicated web hosting). I tried something like this: ls -R *.psd, but that's not working. Suggestions?

Answer 1

You can use the following find command to do that:

find /path/to/search -iname '*.psd'

iname does a case insensitive search.

Answer 2

you also can

ls ./**/*.psd

but:

• you must have bash version 4+
• you must have shopt -s globstar #in your .bashrc or .profile, etc....
• will search case sensitive (or you must set shopt -s nocaseglob too)