[Gllug] Match optional character in filename expansion with find

[Sunny Aujla]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the `find' command how do I match an optional end character, eg. match
> all files ending in 'html' or 'htm'?
>
> find . -name '*.ht{m,ml}' -print

This is how I would do it:

find /path/to/dir -type f \(-name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm" \)

Quick and Easy!

Sunny
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