linux find to find files with multiple patterns

subu_s · 12-02-2004, 12:43 AM

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

theYinYeti · 12-02-2004, 03:08 AM

find . \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" -o -name "*.sc" -o -name "*.ini" \) -print

Yves.

subu_s · 12-02-2004, 08:14 AM

Thanks friend. You solved my problem

thiyagi · 12-14-2010, 09:10 AM

thanks, that was really helpful..

firstfire · 12-14-2010, 01:54 PM

Code:

find | egrep '\.(c|h|sc|ini)$'

syg00 · 12-14-2010, 04:46 PM

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.

Reuti · 12-15-2010, 12:15 AM

There is also -regex in find. So it's possible to have both.