Finding files by Extention in a CLI

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:29:18PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >$ find . -name '*.[Cc][Oo][Mm]' -print
> My excuse for not using the vastly superior "find . -iname '*.com'" 
> is... I didn't know about it! I use HP-UX a lot at work and the HP-UX 
> version of "find" doesn't have the -iname option.

That's one of the better excuses. :)

With the GNU find package, you also don't need to specify "-print", as it's
the default action if nothing else is given. When writing scripts, though, I
try to remember to use it for compatibility.

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