Finding files by Extention in a CLI

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:13:23PM -0600, H. Streit wrote:
> Okay, so I've just copied over a bunch of files and I want to find all 
> .com/.COM/.Com files...
> I thought "find . -print|grep -i ".com" would work, tried a few 
> variants, but I know I'm doing something wrong...any takers?

That will work, except it matches anything which contains the string "com"
preceded by any character. It's also inefficient since the find command
itself can do the filtering. Try this:

  find . -iname '*.com'


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