zerosleeps

Sticking this here because I can never remember the syntax for finding any file in my home directory with a name which contains either “foo” or “bar”:

find -E ~/ -iregex ".*(foo|bar).*"

• -E: from the man page: “Interpret regular expressions followed by -regex and -iregex primaries as extended (modern) regular expressions rather than basic regular expressions (BRE’s)”.
• ~/: search in home directory.
• -iregex: case-insensitive regular expression.

(macOS 10.13.3)

Update 2025-07-24

Just do this, dummy:

find ~/ -ipath "*foo*" -or -ipath "*bar*"