Doing logical OR comparisons with findstr.exe

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Published on 2010-03-17T17:21:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 17:31 UTC
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This may be a stupid question but even after reading the documentation I'm still not sure how to find all lines in a file that contain either ".cpp" or ".h".

Is there a way to do that?

For example (doesn't work):

findstr /i .cpp,.h // , == OR

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