Find command with multiple file types

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
>This simple chore of setting up a backup program is taking my evening. I
>remember now why I was putting this off.
>
>I am using find to find files newer than the last backup to feed them to
>tar. This is working as expected, more or less. I want to find all file
>types except directories, especially regular files and symbolic links
>(which will not be followed.) It seems that the -type option only takes
>one parameter at a time.  Is there some way for a single find command
>to search for several specified file types? man find and info find are
>both silent on this issue.

find / -xdev ! -type d ....

Bill
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