how to use the unix "find" command to find all the cpp and h files?

Question

I know that to find all the h files I need to use: find . -name "*.h" but how to find all the h AND cpp files?

Answer 1

find . -name \*.h -o -name \*.cpp -print

Answer 2

find -name ".h" -or -name ".cpp"

Answer 3

Paul Tomblin Has Already provided a terrific answer, but I thought I saw a pattern in what you were doing.

Chances are you'll be using find to generate a file list to process with grep one day, and for such task there exists a much more user friendly tool, Ack

Works on any system that supports perl, and searching through all C++ related files in a directory recursively for a given string is as simple as

ack "int\s+foo" --cpp

"--cpp" by default matches .cpp .cc .cxx .m .hpp .hh .h .hxx files

( It also skips repository dirs by default so wont match on files that happen to look like files in them )

Answer 4

find . -regex ".*.[cChH](pp)?" -print

This tested fine for me in cygwin.

-Lyles