Linux 'find' only for current folder and specified ones

Question

I need to find files in the current folder (non-recursively) and some other folders (recursively). For example I have a tree structure like:

• folder1/
• folder2/
  • folder2-1/
    • file2-1.php
• folder3/
  • file3-1.php
• file1.php
• file2.php

I want to find files file1.php, file2.php and file2-1.php only. So, search in the root + folder2/ recursively.

All the resources I could find describe either

find . -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.php" // gives `file1.php` and `file2.php`

or

find folder2 -iname "*.php" // gives me `file2-1.php`

So:

Q. How do I combine these commands?

P.S. I should be able to send the list of the found files further in the command line as well (for example to xgettext).

Answer 1

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( find . -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.php"; find folder2 -iname "*.php") | xgettext