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Operating Systems Linux Simplified find command to find multiple file types Post 302425577 by Corona688 on Friday 28th of May 2010 01:28:03 PM
Old 05-28-2010
If you're using GNU find, you can use the -regex option:

Code:
find ./ -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(pl|pm|sql|so|sh|java|class|jar|gz|Z)"

If you don't have GNU find, you can use egrep:

Code:
find ./ -type f | egrep "\.(pl|pm|sql|so|sh|java|class|jar|gz|Z)$"

Note the slight difference between the grep and find regexes. Find assumes the regex should match the entire line. For grep we only need to tell it to match the extension, and append $ to the end to tell it that must be at the end of the line to match.
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xmms2-find-avahi

XMMS2-FIND-AVAHI(1)					      General Commands Manual					       XMMS2-FIND-AVAHI(1)

NAME

       xmms2-find-avahi - finding running XMMS2 instances via Avahi

SYNOPSIS

       xmms2-find-avahi

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the xmms2-find-avahi command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have a manual page.

       XMMS2 is a redesign of the XMMS (http://www.xmms.org) music player. It features a client-server model, allowing multiple  (even	simultane-
       ous!)  user interfaces, both textual and graphical. All common audio formats are supported using plugins. On top of this, there is a flexi-
       ble media library to organize your music.

       xmms2-find-avahi lists all XMMS2 instances that are running on the network and can be accessed  via  Avahi.   XMMS2  can  be  announced	by
       xmms2-mdns-avahi.

OPTIONS

       This program does not offer any options.

SEE ALSO

       xmms2(1), xmms2-mdns-avahi(1), http://xmms2.xmms.org.

AUTHORS

       xmms2-find-avahi was written by the XMMS2 Team.

       This manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								    2009-07-05						       XMMS2-FIND-AVAHI(1)
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