Find files in multiple folder names

And if you want to search three folders named foo, bar, and baz for all *.py files, use this command:

find foo bar baz -name "*.py"

so if you want to display files from dir1 dir2 dir3 use find dir1 dir2 dir3 -type f

try this find . \( -name "dir1" -o -name "dir2" \) -exec ls '{}' \;

It's best to use the -path directive:

find .  \( -type f -and -path '*/dir1/*' -or -path '*/dir2/*' -or -path '*/dir3/*' -or -path '*/dir4/*' \)

Which means: find all files under current directory where there's 'dir1' or 'dir2' or 'dir3' or 'dir4' in the path.

Just to let everyone know. Adding .*/ before each dir solved the problem since the regex is matching against the full path it seems.