Recursively find all files that match a certain pattern

Question

I need to find (or more specifically, count) all files that match this pattern:

*/foo/*.doc

Where the first wildcard asterisk includes a variable number of s

Answer 1

Untested, but try:

find . -type d -name foo -print | while read d; do echo "$d/*.doc" ; done | wc -l

find all the "foo" directories (at varying depths) (this ignores symlinks, if that's part of the problem you can add them); use shell globbing to find all the ".doc" files, then count them.