Finding files with certain extension

Question

When trying to find certain files with certain extension for example .*c

If I input the code below

find folder1 -type f -name '*c'

the result comes up like

folder1/filename1.c

folder1/filename2.c

If I only want the file names, not including the directory to the file like below, how would i have to change the code?

filename1.c

filename2.c

Answer 1

From man find under the -printf option you'll see:

%f     File's name with any leading directories removed (only the last element).

To use it:

find folder1 -type f -name '*.c' -printf '%f\n'

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^{P.S. Careful with the pattern. You want *.c, not .*c or *c.}

Answer 2

You can pipe it to an awk command like this

find folder1 -type f -name '*.c' | awk -F '/' '{ print $NF }'