Help With Find Syntax

Drew Tomlinson drew at mykitchentable.net
Fri Oct 14 12:15:46 PDT 2005


On 10/14/2005 12:05 PM Glenn Sieb wrote:

>Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM:
>
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>>I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in
>>".jpg" or ".gif" but I can't seem to get the find syntax right.  My
>>basic command lines are:
>>
>>find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.gif" -print
>>
>>OR
>>
>>find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -print
>>    
>>
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>find /multimedia/Pictures \( -iname '*.gif' -or -iname '*.jpg' \) -print
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>That should do it for you.
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>

OK, duh.  I get it now.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Thanks,

Drew

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