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    If you're doing -exec or any other action on the find results, remember to parenthese \( \) the whole criteria, otherwise -exec will apply only to the last -or-ed criterion. To work on all of them, parenthese them: find \( <criterion> -o <criterion> \) -exec <command> Commented Jun 13, 2019 at 20:38
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    one may want to consider -iname instead of -name for case insensitivity Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 16:57
  • also -execdir is preferable wrt -exec Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 9:02