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fnord123 on Oct 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternat...

It took me a while to figure out `-o`. You need to use `\(` `\)`

    find . -type f \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.cc -o -name \*.cpp \)

masklinn on Oct 9, 2017 [–]

That was also my understanding, but even with that I don't think I ever ended up getting such an expression right.

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