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Old 12-02-2004, 12:43 AM   #1
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linux find to find files with multiple patterns

Hi friends,
How do I use linux 'find' to find different types of files?
I.e to fine "*.h", "*.c", "*.sc" all in one command.

I currently do something like this:-
find . -name "*.c" > out
find . -name "*.h" >> out
find . -name "*.sc" >> out
find . -name "*.ini" >> out

Any easy way out?

Regards,
Subu
 
Old 12-02-2004, 03:08 AM   #2
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find . \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" -o -name "*.sc" -o -name "*.ini" \) -print

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Old 12-02-2004, 08:14 AM   #3
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Thanks friend. You solved my problem
 
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thanks, that was really helpful..
 
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Code:
find | egrep '\.(c|h|sc|ini)$'
 
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Two tools when the first has options to do it all ?.
That regex could be (better) used with locate if updatedb is indeed up to date.
 
Old 12-15-2010, 12:15 AM   #7
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There is also -regex in find. So it's possible to have both.
 
  


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