Help With Find Syntax

[Glenn Sieb]

Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM:

> 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


find /multimedia/Pictures \( -iname '*.gif' -or -iname '*.jpg' \) -print

That should do it for you.

Best,
--Glenn

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