Hi,

Is there an easier way to write this "find" expression to find any
files matching either *.bak or *.bck:

find . \( -name "*.bck" -o -name "*.bak" \) -print

Since all I want is really something like

ls *.{bak,bck}

but recursively over all subdirectories, I wonder if there's a way to
write a similar, shorter expression for the -name argument in find.

Thanks!

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:43:48 +0000, wcyee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there an easier way to write this "find" expression to find any files
> matching either *.bak or *.bck:
>
> find . \( -name "*.bck" -o -name "*.bak" \) -print
>
> Since all I want is really something like
>
> ls *.{bak,bck}
>
> but recursively over all subdirectories, I wonder if there's a way to
> write a similar, shorter expression for the -name argument in find.
>
> Thanks!

find . -name '*.b[ac]k' -print

On Jul 26, 9:54 pm, Icarus Sparry <use...@icarus.freeuk.com> wrote:
> find . -name '*.b[ac]k' -print

That s - thanks much! What is the best way to find any files
matching a list of extensions, e.g.: "*.cpp", "*.c", "*.h", "*.pl" and
"*.sh"?

On 2007-07-27, wcyee <wcyeee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 9:54 pm, Icarus Sparry <use...@icarus.freeuk.com> wrote:
>> find . -name '*.b[ac]k' -print
>
> That s - thanks much! What is the best way to find any files
> matching a list of extensions, e.g.: "*.cpp", "*.c", "*.h", "*.pl" and
> "*.sh"?

find . -iregex '.*\.\(foo\|bar\|baz\)$' -print

On Jul 27, 1:32 am, Seb <s...@foo.com> wrote:
> On 2007-07-27, wcyee <wcy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 26, 9:54 pm, Icarus Sparry <use...@icarus.freeuk.com> wrote:
> >> find . -name '*.b[ac]k' -print
>
> > That s - thanks much! What is the best way to find any files
> > matching a list of extensions, e.g.: "*.cpp", "*.c", "*.h", "*.pl" and
> > "*.sh"?
>
> find . -iregex '.*\.\(foo\|bar\|baz\)$' -print

Nice. Thanks!

2007-07-27, 05:32(+00), Seb:
> On 2007-07-27, wcyee <wcyeee@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 26, 9:54 pm, Icarus Sparry <use...@icarus.freeuk.com> wrote:
>>> find . -name '*.b[ac]k' -print
>>
>> That s - thanks much! What is the best way to find any files
>> matching a list of extensions, e.g.: "*.cpp", "*.c", "*.h", "*.pl" and
>> "*.sh"?
>
> find . -iregex '.*\.\(foo\|bar\|baz\)$' -print
[...]

That's GNU (and possibly FreeBSD) specific. Even the regexp
syntax is not standard.

FreeBSD (and possibly other BSDs) also has a -E option for
extended regexps.

find -E . -iregex '.*\.(foo|bar|baz)$' -print

As a zsh user, I just do

print -rl -- **/*.(foo|bar|baz)

or to include dot files/dirs:
print -rl -- **/*.(foo|bar|baz)(D)

case insensitively:
print -rl -- **/*.(#i)(foo|bar|baz)(D)

The good thing is that you can replace print with any other
command.

--
Stéphane

> As a zsh user, I just do
>
> print -rl -- **/*.(foo|bar|baz)
>
> or to include dot files/dirs:
> print -rl -- **/*.(foo|bar|baz)(D)
>
> case insensitively:
> print -rl -- **/*.(#i)(foo|bar|baz)(D)
>
> The good thing is that you can replace print with any other
> command.
>

Thanks. I've been meaning to check out zsh for quite some time. Your
examples are really neat.