How to include (or exclude) multiple files from find

[nerbonne]

Ok, I want to run a find command on specified directories and I want to search for multiple file types like *.exe, *.scr, *.bat, *.pif, etc. The problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to make the find command include multiple file types. Excluding multiple file types (or names) would be an acceptable solution also.

What I have come up with so far is:

find /var/

http://www/vhosts

\( -name '*.exe' -user apache -fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\n' \)

It works great, but I need it to find multiple file types. Running it twice is not acceptable (unless there is a way to append to the log file instead of overwriting it?)

Ref post:

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1415496&page=1

 

[thedaver]

Pipe it through multiple greps or an elegant egrep

[your command] | grep -v "\.exe" | grep -v "\.pif"

or

[your command] | egrep -v "(\.exe|\.pif)"

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~tal/3261/egrep_mini-tutorial.htm

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[GunnarD]

This should work:

find / -name "*.zip" -or -name "*.iso