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

You don't need a plugin only for this function, below code snippet is enough.

function! FindFiles()
    call inputsave()
    let l:dir = input("Find file in: ", expand("%:p:h"), "dir")
    call inputrestore()
    if l:dir != ""
        call inputsave()
        let l:file = input("File name: ")
        call inputrestore()
        let l:nf = 'find '.l:dir.' -type f -iname '.l:file.' -exec grep -nH -m 1 ".*" {} \;'
        lexpr system(l:nf)
    endif
endfunction
nnoremap  fo :call FindFiles()