Linux Find Command

[section31]

hey, does anyone how I could go about using the find utility using a regular expression.

 

I tried something like this and I have no idea why it doesn't work..I know I'm doing something wrong.

 

I'm trying to find only certain file extensions with this.

>find . -iregex ".+\.(html|php)" -print

 

I could always use something like this, but as the file extensions increase, it could be quite inefficient.

>find . \( -name *.html -o -name *.php \) -print

[TCH-RobertM]

Hi Section31 the question I have is are you just trying to find all files with the extensions html and php

OR

are you planning on doing more with the command after you find the specified files ?

[TCH-RobertM]

you can try this

find . -iregex '.*\.\(htm\|php\)'

 

That should find all php and htm files

[section31]

you can try this

find . -iregex '.*\.\(htm\|php\)' 

 

That should find all php and htm files

oh geez...thank you so much... that worked...

 

You could've just said escape all metacharacters except . or * you know