How to use find command to find all files with extensions from list

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I need to find all image files from directory  gif  png  jpg  jpeg    find  path to  -name    jpg   gt  log   How to modify this string to find not only  jpg files

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find  path to  -type f -print0   xargs -0 file   grep -i image   This uses the file command to try to recognize the type of file  regardless of filename  or extension    If  path to or a filename contains the string image  then the above may return bogus hits  In that case  I d suggest  cd  path to find   -type f -print0   xargs -0 file --mime-type   grep -i image

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On Mac OS use   find -E packages  -regex       jpg gif png jpeg

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find -E  path to -regex       jpg gif png jpeg    gt  log  The -E saves you from having to escape the parens and pipes in your regex

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find  path to -regex        jpg  gif  png  jpeg     gt  log

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In supplement to  Dennis Williamson  s response above  if you want the same regex to be case-insensitive to the file extensions  use -iregex    find  path to -iregex        jpg  gif  png  jpeg     gt  log

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find -regex        jpg  gif  png  jpeg

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find  path -type f    -iname    jpg  -o -name    jpeg  -o -iname   gif

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in case files have no extension we can look for file mime type  find   -type f -exec file -i        awk -F         if   2    audio video matroska mpeg   print  1      where  audio video matroska mpeg  are mime types regex    amp if you want to delete them   find   -type f -exec file -i        awk -F         if   2    audio video matroska mpeg   print  1      while read f   do   rm   f  done   or delete everything else but those extensions   find   -type f -exec file -i        awk -F         if   2     audio video matroska mpeg   print  1      while read f   do   rm   f  done   notice the    instead of

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find  path to      -iname    gif  -o -iname    jpg     -print0   will work  There might be a more elegant way

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