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Operating Systems Linux Simplified find command to find multiple file types Post 302425434 by vickramshetty on Friday 28th of May 2010 01:19:40 AM
Old 05-28-2010
Simplified find command to find multiple file types
Hi,

I'm using the following command to find the multiple requierd file types and its working fine

Code:
 
find . -name "*.pl" -o -name "*.pm" -o -name "*.sql" -o -name "*.so" -o -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.java" -o -name "*.class" -o -name "*.jar" -o -name "*.gz" -o -name "*.Z" -type f

Though above command workswell and good, but the command is lengthier and difficult to edit or parameterize.
I'm looking to simplify it so that it can be easily editable in a script in future .
Please help me if anyone could simplify the problem.

Note : I cant use "*.*" as its gonna search all the files.

Thanks
Vikram shetty
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

simplify

SIMPLIFY(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SIMPLIFY(1)

NAME

       simplify - a script to simplify a MIME message

SYNOPSIS

       simplify [args ...] < message > othermessage

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the simplify command.  simplify is a Perl script to simplify a MIME message.

       This script never loads the entire message into memory, but does dump it's entire contents to disk once.

OPTIONS

       mime=no
	      Don't use MIME, no HTML mail allowed.

       testing=yes
	      Run in testing mode (suppress randonmess)

       saveall=yes
	      Save all attachments to files.

       temp=/path/to/working/dir/
	      Defaults to /tmp.

       url=http://box/path/
	      URL-prefix for printing paths to attachments

       header=text...
	      Text preceding the attachment URL list.

       textsig=/path/to/file
	      Text signature to append to text parts.

       htmlsig=/path/to/file
	      HTML signature to append to HTML parts.

       If  "saveall"  is yes, then the script will save all attachments to disk so people can access their contents later.  If an URL is specified
       then that automatically implies "saveall=yes".  Without this, the default behavior is to only save text and html parts, and delete them and
       all working directories when the script is finished.

SEE ALSO

       sanitizer(1).  More info on configuration: /usr/share/doc/sanitizer/sanitizer.html

AUTHOR

       Bjarni R. Einarsson <bre@klaki.net>

       This manual page was written by Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@agi.as> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								   May 14, 2003 						       SIMPLIFY(1)
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