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find: search regex of files?

I want to use the find command to search a ton of files, but I want to break it up into multiple machines. I want to search for files with "filename." in the title.
The location I want to search is:

Code:

/u/*/*/*/stuff

On the first computer I want to search:

Code:

/u/[a-i]/*/*/stuff

Right now I am doing

Code:

find /u/*/*/*/stuff -iregex "/u/[a-i]/.*filename\..*" -print >>~/Desktop/find

This works correctly on the first machine, but for the second machine i will be searching [j-p] and in this case it will still search a-i first. I really want to do something like:

Code:

find /u/[j-p]/*/*/stuff -iregex ".*filename\..*" -print >>~/Desktop/find

Anyone know if/how I could do this?

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