Using find command in bash script

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I just start to use bash script and i need to use find command with more than one file type   list   find  home user Desktop -name    pdf      this code work for pdf type but i want to search more than one file type like  txt or  bmp together Have you any idea

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You can use this   list   find  home user Desktop -name    pdf  -o -name    txt  -o -name    bmp     Besides  you might want to use -iname instead of -name to catch files with   PDF   upper-case  extension as well

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Welcome to bash  It s an old  dark and mysterious thing  capable of great magic    -   The option you re asking about is for the find command though  not for bash   From your command line  you can man find to see the options   The one you re looking for is -o for  or      list    find  home user Desktop -name    bmp  -o -name    txt      That said     Don t do this   Storage like this may work for simple filenames  but as soon as you have to deal with special characters  like spaces and newlines  all bets are off  See ParsingLs for details     touch  one txt   two three txt   foo bmp    list    find   -name    txt -o -name    bmp -type f     for file in  list  do if     -f   file     then echo  MISSING   file   fi  done MISSING    two MISSING  three txt   Pathname expansion  globbing  provides a much better safer way to keep track of files  Then you can also use bash arrays     a     txt   bmp     declare -p a declare -a a   0   one txt   1   two three txt   2   foo bmp     for file in    a       do ls -l   file   done -rw-r--r--  1 ghoti  staff  0 24 May 16 27 one txt -rw-r--r--  1 ghoti  staff  0 24 May 16 27 two three txt -rw-r--r--  1 ghoti  staff  0 24 May 16 27 foo bmp   The Bash FAQ has lots of other excellent tips about programming in bash

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If you want to loop over what you  find   you should use this   find   -type f -name       -print0   while IFS  read -r -d    file  do     printf   s n    file  done   Source  https   askubuntu com questions 343727 filenames-with-spaces-breaking-for-loop-find-command

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