Find a file (via recursive directory search) in Vim

Question

Is there any way to search a directory recursively for a file (using wildcards when needed) in Vim? If not natively, is there a plugin that can handle this?

Answer 1

Depending on your situation (that is, assuming the following command will find just a single file), perhaps use a command like:

:e `locate SomeUniqueFileName.java`

This will cause Vim to open, in the current tab (the e command) a file that is the result of running (in this example),

locate SomeUniqueFileName.java

Note that the magic here is the backticks around the command, which will convert the output from the shell command into text usable in the Vim command.