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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Search for Files that DONT contain a string Post 50866 by Ygor on Tuesday 4th of May 2004 12:12:56 PM
Old 05-04-2004
Re: Search for Files that DONT contain a string

Quote:
Originally posted by tonydsam
How do I search for files that dont contain a certain string? I am currently trying

find ./logs -size +1c -exec grep -l 'Process Complete' {} \; -exec ls -l {} \; >$TOD

Which gives me files that are reater han 0 file size and contain the string 'Process complete' but I want files that DONT contain Process Complete. If i use the -v option for grep it still doesnt work!
Just negate the condition with a "!"

find ./logs -size +1c ! -exec grep -l 'Process Complete' {} \; -exec ls -l {} \; >$TOD
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci- fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example: for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files) AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1) ZGREP(1)
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