Hi,
I am trying to do this
For i in *.txt
do
sed 'some pattern checking' $i
done
>file

These text files are spool files.And when i find error in these spool files I want to append the text file contents to error.log file.
Or is there any option that I do this sed for only files that does not contain errors?
Can some one tell me how can i do this please..

this would give you a list of files that contain the pattern you are looking for: so you could do:

I don't think you need the sort | uniq because grep will only print each file name once. In any event, the purpose of cat is to concatenate multiple files, so you really don't need the loop either.

Thanks Yogesh it worked...

Hi,
Please tell me how I can grep files which does not have given pattern.

Thanks

hi ran16,
use -v option in grep
Thanks and Regards,
uttam hoode

If I use like grep -v 'ERROR' *.txt then I get lines also from the text files which do not have ERROR pattern
I want to grep only files that do not have the pattern

I even used 'grep -r exclude' option but some how syntax is wrong I think so.

Please tell me the exact command