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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Pattern searching Post 302473193 by siba.s.nayak on Friday 19th of November 2010 06:22:45 AM

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11-19-2010

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Hi zaxxon,

No, It's not giving the expected result. It gives me all the files in that directory.

I think it should Because when we issue command

Code:

grap -v "TRACK" *

It gives the line which doesn't contain the word "TRACK" so

Code:

grep -vl "TRACK" *

would also gives all the file names because only few lines in file contains the word "TRACK". But I need to discard those file which contain the word "TRACK". grep with -vl option is not working.

Though I am using one script for this purpose. The script is like

Code:

for fname in `ls *sh`
do
#echo $fname
`grep -q "TRACK" $fname`
if [  $? == 1 ];then
echo "$fname"
fi
done

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/american-english-small is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

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