Question

I need to use the Linux find command so that I can search for one name or the other.

I need a way to find two files that are transferred from MS Windows applications. One is produced with a .csv extension, and the other has a .CSV extension. They also have spaces in the file names, which I know how to handle.

However, but I am not quite sure how to add .CSV to the -name \*.csv parameter of the followingfind command.

Can two values be OR’d in the -name parameter?

for fnam in `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name \*.csv -exec echo "{}" \;` 
do
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.
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Answer 1

This command should find both types of files. Please note the escape characters and spaces after parentheses.

find . \( -name "*.cvs" -o -name "*.CVS" \)