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# 1  
Old 07-23-2012
Help needed in excluding word
Hello,
When i run this command
Code:
find ./ -type f -print | xargs grep -l 'myWord'

it prints the file name where 'myWord' exists and also something like the below which i want to exclude
Code:
grep: can't open Fields
grep: can't open Search

I tried piping and grep -v 'open' but it did not work.

Thanks in advance
jak
# 2  
Old 07-23-2012
try this:

Code:
find ./ -type f -print | xargs grep -l 'myWord' 2>/dev/null

# 3  
Old 07-23-2012
This is caused by filenames with spaces in them, try:

Code:
find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l 'myWord'

The highlighted characters are zero (not oh).
# 4  
Old 07-24-2012
Thanks guys - it worked!
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