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# 1  
Old 03-28-2008
Script to find file name for non matching pattern
Hi,

I want to list only the file names which do not contain a specific keyword or search string.
OS: Solaris

Also is there any way ; through the same script I can save the output of search to a CSV (comma seperated) so that the file can be used for inventory purpose.

Any assistance will be highly appreciated.

regards

Sujoy
# 2  
Old 03-28-2008
Use:

grep -vl <Pattern> <Files-List>

'-v' is for "Not Existing"
'-l' is for "Only Output The File-Name"
# 3  
Old 03-28-2008
That will print any file which contains a line which doesn't match the pattern. I imagine the task was to find files which do not contain the pattern anywhere.
# 4  
Old 03-28-2008
Sorry! era is right!

You should then try this:
Code:
for f in <file-list>
do
    grep <Pattern> $f >/dev/null || echo $f
done

And please be more specific on the second part of your problem.
(may be give examples of what you expect to be in the CSV file)
Smilie
# 5  
Old 03-31-2008
Hi,

Thank you very much for the solution. It worked.

For the 2nd part of my request;

suppose the above command produces output like:

/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-141/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-143/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-161/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-166/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-174/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-175/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-178/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-179/vhost.conf
/usr/data/config/apache/backup/www.under_configuration_16-187/vhost.conf

I want to extract only the www site name (i.e only the URL).
# 6  
Old 03-31-2008
If they are all in that directory tree at the same depth, simply

Code:
cut -d/ -f7

See man cut for the full scoop. If that doesn't work, I guess you will have to familiarize yourself with sed or awk.
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