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Old 04-09-2012
Listing files without specific expression in the file
I am running Ubuntu 11.10

I have the following files.

Code:
geo2503r05690585.html  
geo2503r06020612.html 
geo2503r06250641.html 
geo2503r06490658.html  
geo2503r06830686.html  
geo2503r05860601.html  
geo2503r06130624.html  
geo2503r06420648.html  
geo2503r06590682.html  
geo2503r06870687.html

In each of them there should be a line with the following statement:

Code:
bla
bla
bla bla bla href=../../../../geopdf/geo bla bla bla
bla
bla

I want to check all the files. I want to know which files do not contain this pattern in the file, so that I can fix them.

Code:
href=../../../../geopdf/geo

I was thinking of using grep in some way. However grep will check each line, not just one instance of the expression in the file.
# 2  
Old 04-09-2012
Code:
grep -Fl 'href=../../../../geopdf/geo' geo*.html

will get you a list of files that do contain the string.

Since you are on Ubuntu your grep should also have a -L option:
Code:
grep -FL 'href=../../../../geopdf/geo' geo*.html

Which should get you a list of files that do not contain the string..
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# 3  
Old 04-09-2012
Thanks. I have been trying the following but there is some problem with it:

Code:
#!/bin/tcsh

set allFiles = `tree -fi | awk 'BEGIN{FS="/"; OFS="/"}; NF == 4 {print}'` 

foreach f ($allFiles)
  set fext = $f:e
  if ( "$fext" == "html") then
    set result = `grep "../../../../geopdf/geo" $f`
    if ( "$result" == "" ) then
      echo "Check file $f"
    endif
  endif
end

---------- Post updated at 04:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:28 PM ----------

So now I have tried using your code and hope it works, because I do not know if I missed changing a file. And in reality there are 886 of them.
Code:
#!/bin/tcsh

set allFiles = `tree -fi | awk 'BEGIN{FS="/"; OFS="/"}; NF == 4 {print}'` 

foreach f ($allFiles)
  set fext = $f:e
  if ( "$fext" == "html") then
    grep  -FL "../../../../geopdf/" $f
  endif
end

# 4  
Old 04-09-2012
Well if you run both commands through wc -l and you add up those numbers you should get 886, no?
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# 5  
Old 04-09-2012
That way I can check. Very good.

---------- Post updated at 05:03 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:58 PM ----------

I am a bit stuck on how to use the wc command on this

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment This thread has gone far enough. The problem posted has far more complexity than the basic usage of the wc command. Please avoid posting random untested input data such as bla and no matching output data.
Ps. As you hav been advised umpteen times on this board, we strongly advise that nobody uses csh for any unix systems work.
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