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If you'd like to always search within file contents for a specific folder, navigate to that folder in File Explorer and open the “Folder and Search Options.” On the “Search” tab, select the “Always search file names and contents” option.
You can use “grep” command to search string in files. Alternatively, You can also also use the "find " command to display files with specific string. Hope this answer help you.
Syntax: cp [OPTION] Source Destination cp [OPTION] Source Directory cp [OPTION] Source-1 Source-2 Source-3 Source-n Directory First and second syntax is used to copy Source file to Destination file or Directory.
Use find with a wildcard:
find . -name 'mystring*'
ls | grep "^abc"
will give you all files beginning (which is what the OP specifically required) with the substringabc.
It operates only on the current directory whereas find operates recursively into sub folders.
To use find for only files starting with your string try
find . -name 'abc'*
If you want to restrict your search only to files you should consider to use -type f in your search
try to use also -iname for case-insensitive search
Example:
find /path -iname 'yourstring*' -type f
You could also perform some operations on results without pipe sign or xargs
Example:
Search for files and show their size in MB
find /path -iname 'yourstring*' -type f -exec du -sm {} \;
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