-name is the key but it is using regular expressions (man regexp) to match against filenames. ".html" will only match one file: .html whereas telling -name that zero or omore characters may precede .html as in: "*.html" will find the file names you're looking for. The "" characters are required to escape the special meaning of * to the shell. The shell always looks for special characters like * ? [] and so on in order to match file and directory names. The "" send the string untouched to find so it can do it's own pattern matching.
In a pinch, you can always do this:
cd
find . -type f | grep html
or use grep's multi-pattern capability:
find . -type f | grep -e .html -e .jsp
Note that -depth and -print are defaulted to true so -print and -depth are redundant. If you need to stay at the current directory level (and not go down into other directories), use -prune. Note that when -depth is explicity set on the command line, -prune is disabled. -print is always true unless the output of find is directed to something like -exec, in which case you can add -print to feed the names to exec *and* see the names on stdout at the same time.
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
