diff --git a/airflow/utils/file.py b/airflow/utils/file.py
index e0afd61cfa68..5cd6305e0123 100644
--- a/airflow/utils/file.py
+++ b/airflow/utils/file.py
@@ -119,10 +119,11 @@ def find_path_from_directory(
         for file in files:  # type: ignore
             if file == ignore_file_name:
                 continue
-            file_path = os.path.join(root, str(file))
-            if any(re.findall(p, file_path) for p in patterns):
+            abs_file_path = os.path.join(root, str(file))
+            rel_file_path = os.path.join(os.path.relpath(root, str(base_dir_path)), str(file))
+            if any(p.search(rel_file_path) for p in patterns):
                 continue
-            yield str(file_path)
+            yield str(abs_file_path)
 
 
 def list_py_file_paths(directory: str,
diff --git a/docs/concepts.rst b/docs/concepts.rst
index f86d08a09387..05cd5b81637b 100644
--- a/docs/concepts.rst
+++ b/docs/concepts.rst
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ A ``.airflowignore`` file specifies the directories or files in ``DAG_FOLDER``
 or ``PLUGINS_FOLDER`` that Airflow should intentionally ignore.
 Each line in ``.airflowignore`` specifies a regular expression pattern,
 and directories or files whose names (not DAG id) match any of the patterns
-would be ignored (under the hood,``re.findall()`` is used to match the pattern).
+would be ignored (under the hood,``Pattern.search()`` is used to match the pattern).
 Overall it works like a ``.gitignore`` file.
 Use the ``#`` character to indicate a comment; all characters
 on a line following a ``#`` will be ignored.
diff --git a/tests/plugins/test_plugin_ignore.py b/tests/plugins/test_plugin_ignore.py
index e92740ada28d..951422d8a98e 100644
--- a/tests/plugins/test_plugin_ignore.py
+++ b/tests/plugins/test_plugin_ignore.py
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
 import unittest
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
-import pytest
-
 from airflow import settings
 from airflow.utils.file import find_path_from_directory
 
@@ -38,10 +36,11 @@ def setUp(self):
         """
         Make tmp folder and files that should be ignored. And set base path.
         """
-        self.test_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        # Temp dir name includes an ignored token "not", but it shouldn't matter since it's in the base path.
+        self.test_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="onotole")
         self.test_file = os.path.join(self.test_dir, 'test_file.txt')
         self.plugin_folder_path = os.path.join(self.test_dir, 'test_ignore')
-        os.mkdir(os.path.join(self.test_dir, "test_ignore"))
+        os.mkdir(self.plugin_folder_path)
         os.mkdir(os.path.join(self.plugin_folder_path, "subdir1"))
         os.mkdir(os.path.join(self.plugin_folder_path, "subdir2"))
         files_content = [
@@ -67,8 +66,6 @@ def tearDown(self):
         """
         shutil.rmtree(self.test_dir)
 
-    # See the issue: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/10988
-    @pytest.mark.heisentests
     def test_find_not_should_ignore_path(self):
         """
         Test that the .airflowignore work and whether the file is properly ignored.