Searching for files on Linux or UNIX

Here are some example on how to search for different files based on their extensions (or on some arbitrary naming requirement) with a single find(1) statement.

Find all C source files:

$ find . -name '*.c'

Find all C source and header files:

$ find . -name '*.[ch]'

Find all C source and header files as well as all Java files:

$ find . -name '*.[ch]' -print -o -name '*.java' -print

Same as the last example but removing SCCS files

$ find . -name 'SCCS' -prune -o -name '*.[ch]' -print -o -name '*.java' -print