Recursively find files with a specific extension
LinuxBashLinux Problem Overview
I'm trying to find files with specific extensions. For example, I want to find all .pdf and .jpg files that's named Robert
I know I can do this command
$ find . -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp'
but I need to specify the name of the file itself besides the extensions. I just want to see if there's a possible way to avoid writing the file name again and over again Thank you !
Linux Solutions
Solution 1 - Linux
My preference:
find . -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.png' -print | grep Robert
Solution 2 - Linux
Using find
's -regex
argument:
find . -regex '.*/Robert\.\(h\|cpp\)$'
Or just using -name
:
find . -name 'Robert.*' -a \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' \)
Solution 3 - Linux
find -name "*Robert*" \( -name "*.pdf" -o -name "*.jpg" \)
The -o
repreents an OR
condition and you can add as many as you wish within the braces. So this says to find all files containing the word "Robert" anywhere in their names and whose names end in either "pdf" or "jpg".
Solution 4 - Linux
As an alternative to using -regex
option on find
, since the question is labeled [tag:bash], you can use the brace expansion mechanism:
eval find . -false "-o -name Robert".{jpg,pdf}
Solution 5 - Linux
This q/a shows how to use find with regular expression: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6844785/how-to-use-regex-with-find-command
Pattern could be something like
'^Robert\\.\\(h|cgg\\)$'
Solution 6 - Linux
As a script you can use:
find "${2:-.}" -iregex ".*${1:-Robert}\.\(h\|cpp\)$" -print
- save it as
findcc
- chmod 755 findcc
and use it as
findcc [name] [[search_direcory]]
e.g.
findcc # default name 'Robert' and directory .
findcc Joe # default directory '.'
findcc Joe /somewhere # no defaults
note you cant use
findcc /some/where #eg without the name...
also as alternative, you can use
find "$1" -print | grep "$@"
and
findcc directory grep_options
like
findcc . -P '/Robert\.(h|cpp)$'
Solution 7 - Linux
Using bash globbing (if find
is not a must)
ls Robert.{pdf,jpg}
Solution 8 - Linux
Recurisvely with ls: (-al for include hidden folders)
ftype="jpg"
ls -1R *.${ftype} 2> /dev/null
Solution 9 - Linux
For finding the files in system using the files database:
locate -e --regex "\.(h|cpp)$"
Make sure locate
package is installed i.e. mlocate