Bash – Get list of all files by mask in terminal

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I want to find all *.h,*.cpp files in folders with defined mask, like */trunk/src*. So, I can find separately *.h and *.cpp files:

find . -path "*/trunk/src/*.h"
find . -path "*/trunk/src/*.cpp"

What is the best way to get the file-list both of types (*.h and *.cpp)?

PS I'd like to pipe the list to grep.

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You can use -o for "or":

find . -path '*/trunk/src/*.h' -o -path '*/trunk/src/*.cpp'

which is the same as

find . -path '*/trunk/src/*' \( -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp' \)

If you want to run grep on these files:

find . \( -path '*/trunk/src/*.h' -o -path '*/trunk/src/*.cpp' \) -exec grep PATTERN {} +

find . -path '*/trunk/src/*' \( -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp' \) -exec grep PATTERN {} +

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Linux – List all files in a directory recursively but exclude directories themselves

find . -type f

will do it. You can do exec if you want to operate on file names.

Finding all .cpp and .h files and moving them to ~/junk

portably:

cd &&
  find . -path ./junk -prune -o -type f \( \
    -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp' \) -exec sh -c '
      exec mv -i "$@" junk' sh {} +

Above excluding the junk folder itself from the search.

We're only removing regular files (-type f). There may be other types of files you want to move like symlinks, but beware that moving symlinks often break them.

The -i is a safeguard to avoid two files with the same name overriding each other.

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Finding all .cpp and .h files and moving them to ~/junk

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