Re: does find has feature to find several names

[Soren Orel <soren.orel@gmail.com>]

thank you, but i don't need regex, I'm just searching, that is there a shorter way in the find command to search for e.g.: two filenames

find . -type f -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.html"

so that I don't have to write "-o -name" at every time :D:P

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Siggy Brentrup <debian@psycho.i21k.de> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:00 +0200, Soren Orel wrote:
> so that I don't have to write this:
>
> find . -type f -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.html"
>
> is there a
>
> find . -type f -name "*.sh|*.html"

man 1 find

look for -regex

hth
 Siggy
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