Using find command in bash script

Question

I just start to use bash script and i need to use find command with more than one file type.

list=$(find /home/user/Desktop -name \'*.pdf\') 

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Answer 1

You can use this:

list=$(find /home/user/Desktop -name '*.pdf' -o -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.bmp')

Besides, you might want to use -iname instead of -name to catch files with ".PDF" (upper-case) extension as well.