Question

I would like to find any files within a given root that contain arbitrary extensions in the filename.
I saw this post:
How to delete all files with certain suffix before file extension

Based on that information, I tried this:

find . -iregex ".*\.\(wav\|aif\|wave\|aiff\)"

This seems like it should work, but I don’t get any results printed to the terminal window.

Can anyone offer advice? I’m on OSX 10.7

Thanks,
jml

Answer 1

You are looking for:

find . -regex ".*\.\(wav\|aif\|wave\|aiff\)"

You were missing escape, \, characters on the or, |, operators