Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:05:04 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb <ges+lists@wingfoot.org> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help With Find Syntax Message-ID: <43500160.8050706@wingfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <434FFEB4.90308@mykitchentable.net> References: <434FFEB4.90308@mykitchentable.net>
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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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