diff --git a/classes/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystem.inc b/classes/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystem.inc
index f65e07a..7581083 100644
--- a/classes/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystem.inc
+++ b/classes/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystem.inc
@@ -80,4 +80,25 @@ class ComicPressBackendFilesystem extends ComicPressBackend {
 		}
 		return false;
 	}
+
+	function find_matching_files($patterns) {
+		foreach ($patterns as $pattern) {
+			$dir = dirname($pattern);
+			if (is_dir($dir)) {
+				$pattern = str_replace('*', '.*', basename($pattern));
+				if (($dh = opendir($dir)) !== false) {
+					while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
+						$target = $dir . '/' . $file;
+						if (is_file($target) || is_link($target)) {
+							if (preg_match('#' . $pattern. '#', $file) > 0) {
+								return $target;
+							}
+						}
+					}
+					closedir($dh);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
 }
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diff --git a/test/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystemTest.php b/test/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystemTest.php
index 527908e..2e1e917 100644
--- a/test/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystemTest.php
+++ b/test/backends/ComicPressBackendFilesystemTest.php
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ class ComicPressBackendFilesystemTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
 	function setUp() {
 		_reset_wp();
 		$this->fs = new ComicPressBackendFilesystem();
+
+		vfsStreamWrapper::register();
+		vfsStreamWrapper::setRoot(new vfsStreamDirectory('root'));
 	}
 
 	function providerTestProcessSearchString() {
@@ -60,4 +63,28 @@ class ComicPressBackendFilesystemTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
 
 		$this->assertEquals($expected_searches, $fs->process_search_string($posts[$post_id_to_use], 'comic'));
 	}
+
+	function providerTestFindMatchingFiles() {
+		return array(
+			array(array('/blah'),	false),
+			array(array('/comic/2008-01-01.jpg'),	false),
+			array(array('/comic/2009-01-01.jpg'),	vfsStream::url('root/comic/2009-01-01.jpg')),
+			array(array('/comic/2009-01-01-test.jpg'),	vfsStream::url('root/comic/2009-01-01-test.jpg')),
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @dataProvider providerTestFindMatchingFiles
+	 */
+	function testFindMatchingFiles($filesystem_layout, $expected_match) {
+		foreach ($filesystem_layout as $file) {
+			$parts = pathinfo($file);
+			mkdir(vfsStream::url("root{$parts['dirname']}"), 0666, true);
+			file_put_contents(vfsStream::url("root${file}"), 'test');
+		}
+
+		wp_set_post_categories(1, array(2));
+
+		$this->assertEquals($expected_match, $this->fs->find_matching_files(array(vfsStream::url('root/comic/2009-01-01*.jpg'))));
+	}
 }
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