Find multiple files in linux

Question

I am searching for files in linux and am able to execute the command to search for a single type of format e.g *.jpg but would like to find all files with *.jpg and *.css in one command.

Answer 1

 find -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.css"

Answer 2

There is a fingerbreaking variant with regex:

find -regex ".*\.\(css\|jpg\)" 

It's shorter and avoid pitfalls, combined with the -o versions:

find ./ -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.css" -ls 

The ls is only adapted to the second pattern, here. You can avoid it with

find ./ \( -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.css" \) -ls 

but that is getting a bit cryptic too.

Very fast for searching your whole system in the update-db-index is locate, which knows regex too, but doesn't find ultra fresh files:

locate -r "Frame.\(scal\|jav\)a"

Answer 3

Alternatively, you can type :

find -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.css"