I'd like to find source files (*.c, *.cpp, *.h) that contain in Linux/MinGW/Cygwin, and recursively in all sub directories.
My basic idea is using find and grep. However, building a regular expression that can check given file name is either *.c, *.cpp, or *.h isn't easy. Could you help me out?
This should work:
find Linux/MinGW/Cygwin -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h'
find -regex '.*/.*\.\(c\|cpp\|h\)$'
I would use:
find . -regex '.*\.\(c\|cpp\|h\)$' -print
-E can't find anything. you might need add a -E (as extended) to make it more portable, just like find -E . -regex '.*\.(c|h|cpp)' -print. ;-) – YanTing_ThePandaMay 1 '17 at 9:17Quick and dirty, and avoids directory names:
find . -type f -name *.[c\|h]
*.cpp files. 2. It will find *.| files. 3. The glob will expand if there are matching files in the current directory. Quoting prevents that. – Dennis Dec 17 '13 at 15:48I use a mac pro which also works in bash. But every time I type in the command line:
find -name
it says illegal option. So I just simplified it as:
find *.c *.cpp *.h
and found it really worked!
You can use a slightly simpler regex:
find . -type f -regex ".*\.[ch]\(pp\)?$"
$at the end of the command do? – Ali Aug 15 '17 at 3:16foo.cpp.oldfor example). – Dennis Williamson Aug 23 '17 at 13:12