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In any case, find doesn't work that way. You were looking for the exact name there. Find supports wildcards, as long as they are in single quotes.

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find ~/ -name '*.iso'

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unrar

UNRAR(1)							   RAR archiver 							  UNRAR(1)

NAME

       unrar - extract files from rar archives

SYNOPSIS

       unrar <command> [-<switch 1> -<switch N>] archive [files...] [path...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the unrar command.
       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
       Commands and options described here are as of unrar 2.02.

OPTIONS

       After the program name comes a command and then optional switches with dashes before them.  A summary of commands is included below.  For a
       complete description, run unrar without options.

       e      Extract files to current directory.

       l      List archive content.

       p      Print file to stdout.

       t      Test archive files.

       v      Verbosely list archive.

       x      Extract files with full path.

SWITCHES

       NOTE: Every switch must be separated by a whitespace. You cannot put them together.

       -av-   Disable AV check.

       -c-    Disable comments show.

       -f     Freshen files.

       -kb    Keep broken extracted files.

       -ierr  Send all messages to stderr.

       -inul  Disable all messages.

       -o+    Overwrite existing files.

       -o-    Do not overwrite existing files.

       -p<password>
	      Set password.

       -p-    Do not query password.

       -r     Recurse subdirectories.

       -u     Update files.

       -v     List all volumes.

       -x<file>
	      Exclude specified file.

       -x@<list>
	      Exclude files in specified list file.

       -x@    Read file names to exclude from stdin.

       -y     Assume Yes on all queries.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Petr Cech <cech@debian.org> according to "unrar -h" for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but  may  be  used	by
       others).

								    02.11.1999								  UNRAR(1)

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