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

Question

Hello,

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?

Thank you.

PS: Unix

Answer 1

 find /path/to/ -name "*.gif" -o -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.png" -o -name "*.jpeg"

will work. There might be a more elegant way.

Answer 2

dir /s *.jpg *.gif *.png *.jpeg > log

find searches the contents of files rather than the file system.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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/

Answer 5

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