[Gllug] Match optional character in filename expansion with find

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:57:21PM +0000, gvim 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
> 
> ... doesn't work. Perl regexes have ? so what's the equivalent using `find'.

GNU find has a '-regex' option, but the man page says it only
supports Emacs regular expressions and not Perl compatible ones.


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