Find files and directories by name in linux?

Use the command below to look for files and directories starting with letters qa. In our computer, we have the qatree.txt and qa.txt files as well as a directory by the name qa.

If we run the command;

find ./ -name "qa*"

It returns the following output

./test/qatree.pdf
./test/qa.txt
./home/qa

The command returns both the files and directories matching the search criteria. To find files or directories only, you need to specify this in the command.