On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew Cengia <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   mattcen@isis:tmp$ shopt -s nullglob
> >   mattcen@isis:tmp$ ls *.mkv *.mp4 *.avi
> >   a.mkv  b.mp4
> 
> Excellent.

Yes, Matthew's suggestion works really well for interactive use.  I couldn't 
work out how to make it run from a Makefile though.

> Note that the find command also returns no errors if nothing
> matches the search criteria. There's an option to prevent it from
> recursively descending subdirectories, which my quick search of the manual
> page didn't locate but which I'm confident exists.

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.mkv" -o -name "*.avi" -o -name "*.mp4"

Good idea, the above does what I need.  Thanks for the suggestion.

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