# Rdir: search recursive for files with a given name pattern

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rdir-search-recursive-for-files-with-a-given-name-pattern/75605>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, filesystem\
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rdir-search-recursive-for-files-with-a-given-name-pattern/75605 "2022-02-01T21:23:19Z")\
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You could use the Glob package with `walkdir`, for example:

```julia
import Glob
function rdir(dir::AbstractString, pat::Glob.FilenameMatch)
    result = String[]
    for (root, dirs, files) in walkdir(dir)
        append!(result, filter!(f -> occursin(pat, f), joinpath.(root, files)))
    end
    return result
end
rdir(dir::AbstractString, pat::AbstractString) = rdir(dir, Glob.FilenameMatch(pat))

```

Then do e.g. `rdir("somedir", "*.jl")`.

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