[bash] Using find command in bash script

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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