refine find search

[nathanv221]

hey i'm looking for a file and when i use a find search i am getting too much information to sift through. i am only looking for a .txt file but and getting a lot of .deb files, how do i refine the search to only look for .txt files?

if it helps what im putting in is "find REQUIRED /home/user/../../var/cache/apt/archives/"

where of course user is my name

[CharlesA]

Why are you searching in /var/cache/apt/archives/ ?

find /path/to/directory -name filename.txt -print

[codemaniac]

hey i'm looking for a file and when i use a find search i am getting too much information to sift through. i am only looking for a .txt file but and getting a lot of .deb files, how do i refine the search to only look for .txt files?

if it helps what im putting in is "find REQUIRED /home/user/../../var/cache/apt/archives/"

where of course user is my name

The below would look for only .txt files in the /path/to/search directory .

find /path/to/search -name "*.txt" -print

<edit>Sorry for the redundant post , guess me and charlsea were minutes apart .

However i want to add something for your help , in a find search if you can not remember the exact file name you can always use wildcards and wrap them in double quotes as above .
</edit>

[HiImTye]

you can also pipe to other tools which can give you better or simpler filtering options, such as grep or sed

find / -type f 2>/dev/null | grep -iE '.*[0-9]*|\.avfilter|etc\..*$'

[greenpeace]

Might be better to use the -iname flag... just in case the file has the extension .TXT:

find /path/to/files/ -iname "*.txt"

then filter your results with grep:

find /path/to/files/ -iname "*.txt" | grep -i <thing you're looking for>

What are you looking for in /var/cache/apt/archives/ ?