Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

TIL Find Command

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TAGS: search terminal commands

I wanted to look for files with a specific extension.


## top answer
ls *.{mp3,exe,mp4} ## will throw a error if any of them don't have a result
ls *.(mp3|exe|mp4) ## Return all files that match, even if there's 0 results


## alternate
ls *.mp4 *.mp3 *.exe

The * means any
Then the brackets of elements

Via https://stackoverflow.com/a/1447974/4096078

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