Unix find: multiple file types

Question

I want to run find -name with multiple file types. Eg.

 find -name *.h,*.cpp

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can also use the -regex utility:

find -E . -iregex ".*\.(js|jsx|html|htm)"

Remember that the regex looks at the full absolute path:

For an explanation of that regex with test cases check out: https://regex101.com/r/oY1vL2/1

-E(as a flag BEFORE the path) enables extended (modern) regular expressions.

This is for BSD find (Mac OSX 10.10.5)