How to list specific type of files in recursive directories in shell?

Question

How can we find specific type of files i.e. doc pdf files present in nested directories.

command I tried:

$ ls -R | grep .doc

but if th

Answer 1

We had a similar question. We wanted a list - with paths - of all the config files in the etc directory. This worked:

find /etc -type f \( -iname "*.conf" \)

It gives a nice list of all the .conf file with their path. Output looks like:

/etc/conf/server.conf

But, we wanted to DO something with ALL those files, like grep those files to find a word, or setting, in all the files. So we use

find /etc -type f \( -iname "*.conf" \) -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Hi "ServerName"

to find via grep ALL the config files in /etc that contain a setting like "ServerName" Output looks like:

/etc/conf/server.conf: ServerName "default-118_11_170_172"

Hope you find it useful.

Sid