Is it possible to search for a particular filename on GitHub?

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Peter Alfvin picture Peter Alfvin · Sep 24, 2013 · Viewed 48.8k times · Source

I know that the GitHub web interface lets you search all repositories for files with a particular pathname (e.g. searching for path:/app/models/user.rb yields >109k results), but is there a way to search all repositories for filenames independent of their subdirectory location? I tried using asterisks in the path argument, and that didn't seem to work.

Answer

Orangenhain picture Orangenhain · Feb 5, 2015

Does the search user.rb in:path do what you want to do? Alternatively there is also this search filename:user.rb

Found on: https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/

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