Find file by file name containing a string?

Hi Guys,
I'm trying to write a function that looks for a txt file containing a string in it's name.
$scriptLoc = [string](Get-Location)
$files = Get-ChildItem - Path $scriptLoc -filter *Yellow
So I have a list of files.
Yellow_Config.txt
Blue_Config.txt
Red_Config.txt
What I want to do is only retrieve the .txt that contains the name Yellow. When I run my code nothing happens.

You've got your wildcard in the wrong place in your filter:
$files = Get-ChildItem - Path $scriptLoc -filter Yellow*
See:
Get-Help about_Wildcards
[string](0..33|%{[char][int](46+("686552495351636652556262185355647068516270555358646562655775 0645570").substring(($_*2),2))})-replace " "

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