how to use the unix “find” command to find all the cpp and h files?

Question

I know that to find all the .h files I need to use:

find . -name \"*.h\"

but how to find all the .h AND .cpp

Answer 1

You can use find in this short form:

find \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' \) -print

-print can be omitted. Using -o just between expressions is especially useful when you want to find multiple types of files and do one same job (let's say calculating md5sum).