Using Find with Grep

[Rick Weinbender]

How can I make the following expression
display only occurrences that do NOT contain the
searchstring.  Is this possible?

find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;

I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline
in a user config file.

TIA,

-Rick


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Re: Using Find with Grep

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:21:16AM -0500, Rick Weinbender wrote:
 How can I make the following expression display only occurrences that
 do NOT contain the searchstring.  Is this possible?
 
 find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;
 
 I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline in a user
 config file.

   -L, --files-without-match
  Suppress normal output; instead print the  name  of
  each input file from which no output would normally
  have been printed.  The scanning will stop  on  the
  first match.

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Re: Using Find with Grep

[kd4d]

Hello:

Try  man grep at any Unix command line.  You might find something
like...

   -L, --files-without-match
  Suppress normal output; instead print the  name  of
  each input file from which no output would normally
  have been printed.  The scanning will stop  on  the
  first match.

If you need to find all such files, you can easily write a loop in
a shell script.

Mark
 How can I make the following expression
 display only occurrences that do NOT contain the
 searchstring.  Is this possible?
 
 find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;
 
 I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline
 in a user config file.
 
 TIA,
 
 -Rick
 
 
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Re: Using Find with Grep

[Rick Weinbender]

thanks man! :-)
It works great, and doesn't stop
on the first match.
-Rick

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 Hello:

 Try  man grep at any Unix command line.  You might find something
 like...

-L, --files-without-match
   Suppress normal output; instead print the  name  of
   each input file from which no output would normally
   have been printed.  The scanning will stop  on  the
   first match.

 If you need to find all such files, you can easily write a loop in
 a shell script.

 Mark
  How can I make the following expression
  display only occurrences that do NOT contain the
  searchstring.  Is this possible?
 
  find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;
 
  I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline
  in a user config file.
 
  TIA,
 
  -Rick
 
 
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