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Kirzilla
Kirzilla

Reputation: 16596

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

I need to find all image files from directory (gif, png, jpg, jpeg).

find /path/to/ -name "*.jpg" > log

How to modify this string to find not only .jpg files?

Upvotes: 212

Views: 305852

Answers (10)

AamirR
AamirR

Reputation: 12198

Adding -regextype posix-extended option only worked in my case:

sudo find . -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|ttf|woff|svg)" -exec chmod 0640 {} \;

Upvotes: 1

JoseK
JoseK

Reputation: 31371

find /path/to/  \( -iname '*.gif' -o -iname '*.jpg' \) -print0

will work. There might be a more elegant way.

Upvotes: 150

k. Doe
k. Doe

Reputation: 11

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

&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 ~

Upvotes: 0

7ynk3r
7ynk3r

Reputation: 1008

On Mac OS use 

find -E packages  -regex ".*\.(jpg|gif|png|jpeg)"

Upvotes: 9

TCW
TCW

Reputation: 165

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 ".*\.\(jpg\|gif\|png\|jpeg\)" > log

Upvotes: 7

Shrikant
Shrikant

Reputation: 463

find -regex ".*\.\(jpg\|gif\|png\|jpeg\)"

Upvotes: 3

tboyce12
tboyce12

Reputation: 1481

find -E /path/to -regex ".*\.(jpg|gif|png|jpeg)" > log

The -E saves you from having to escape the parens and pipes in your regex.

Upvotes: 37

Dennis Williamson
Dennis Williamson

Reputation: 360065

find /path/to -regex ".*\.\(jpg\|gif\|png\|jpeg\)" > log

Upvotes: 226

unutbu
unutbu

Reputation: 879471

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/

Upvotes: 13

ghostdog74
ghostdog74

Reputation: 342363

find /path -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -name "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*gif" \)

Upvotes: 10

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