bash grep

How do I grep a given path and not the contents of the file in bash? ls won't work because the path is actually an input file, $1. Thanks.

If you are looking for a file name in a directory tree, you can use find and grep in combination:


find . | grep wabbles

might output something like:


x/y/z/wabbles/wek.tt
wabbels.tt
r/wabbels/y.tt