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Find all hidden files of a certain extension in the curent directory recursively
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This command will find all the files of the given extensions in the current directory recursively, print the output to console and also write it to list_of_hidden_files file in the current directory:

find . -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(EXTENSIONS)" | tee list_of_hidden_files

where EXTENSION can be any regex expression:

For example to look for .docx, doc, and odt just replace extensions for:

docx|doc|odt

Eg.:

find . -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(docx|doc|odt)" | tee list_of_hidden_files
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