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Old 07-16-2008
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Originally Posted by madankumar View Post
Hi

I need a command to search files in a directory which does not match with pattern .. Plz send me this

Ex : Test is directory and has some 10 files with different name all are with *.dat extension , need to search files which doesnot contain word "Dummy file".


Thanks

Code:
find . -name "*.dat" | xargs grep -v "Dummy file"

Thanks