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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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jpackage-utils(7)						RPM Java packaging						 jpackage-utils(7)

NAME

       jpackage-utils - Utilities, macros and other files for the JPackage Project <http://www.jpackage.org/>:

SYNOPSIS

       build-classpath
	    build the Java classpath in a portable manner

       build-jar-repository
	    build a jar repository in a portable manner

       rebuild-jar-repository
	    rebuild a jar repository in a portable manner (after a jvm change...)

       build-classpath-directory
	    build the Java classpath from a directory

       diff-jars
	    show jar content differences

       jvmjar
	    install jvm extensions

       create-jar-links
	    create custom jar links

       clean-binary-files
	    remove binary files from sources

       check-binary-files
	    check for presence of unexpected binary files

DESCRIPTION

       The JPackage Project has two primary goals:

	- To provide a coherent set of Java software packages for Linux, satisfying all quality requirements of other applications.

	- To establish an efficient and robust policy for Java software packaging and installation.
	 We  focus  on	free and open source software whenever possible. For convenience, we also provide non-free packages without the restricted
	 source code.

       Our RPMs are generic in that they should work on any RPM based Linux distribution (Mandriva, Red Hat, SuSE, others). Other packaging format
	 suggestions are welcome too.

FILES

       /use/share/java-utils/java-functions
	    shell script functions library for Java applications

       /etc/java/jpackage-release
	    string identifying the currently installed JPackage release

       /etc/java/java.conf
	    system-wide Java configuration file

       ~/.java/java.conf
	    user's Java configuration

       /etc/rpm/macros.jpackage
	    RPM macros for Java packagers and developers

SEE ALSO

   Regular Manual Pages
       build-classpath(1)
       build-classpath-directory(1)
       build-jar-repository(1)
       check-binary-files(1)
       clean-binary-files(1)
       create-jar-links(1)
       diff-jars(1)
       find-jar(1)
       jvmjar(1)
       rebuild-jar-repository(1)
       rebuild-security-providers(1)
       java.conf(5)

   Documentation
       Following files are located in your standard documentation directory

       HEADER.JPP
	    A standard header with license for spec files of JPackage Project

       clean-binary-files.txt
	    A further documentation for check-binary-files(1), clean-binary-files(1) and create-jar-links(1) commands

       httpd-javadoc.conf
	    Example JPackage javadoc configuration snippet for Apache

       jpackage-1.5-policy.xhtml
	    JPackage Java infrastructure design and packaging policy

       jpackage-utils-policy
	    JPackage packaging (naming) policy

AUTHOR

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REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/)

jpackage-utils 1.7.5						   February 2009						 jpackage-utils(7)
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