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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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"find" files of multiple extensions, on one or more directories, excluding multiple subdirectories

Posted 12-07-2019 at 12:43 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 12-07-2019 at 12:47 PM by the dsc
It took me quite a while to find the correct syntax, only after some dozens of attempts that only worked partly right:

Code:
 find "${PWD}" "/optionally/any/other/path/"  \( -path '*/\.*' -o -name '*notthisfolder*' -o -name '*northis*' -o -wholename "*oteven/thi*" \) -prune -o -iname '*.ext1' -o -iname "*.ext2" -o -iname "*.ext*nsion3"
Where '*/\.*' excludes hidden folders (also files, I guess). All the patterns between the...
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