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Old 10-25-2006
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The -name option specifies the filename, not the path.

If there's a small number of them you can do this with shell globbing:
Code:
ls 2006*/ftp_server*

Otherwise, you might do this with find and grep:

Code:
 find . -iname 'ftp_server*' | grep 2006