Re: Using Find with Grep

[Rick Weinbender <lsrwein@central-ph.k12.mo.us>]

thanks man! :-)
It works great, and doesn't stop
on the first match.
-Rick

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kd4d@comcast.net wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Try  "man grep" at any Unix command line.  You might find something
> like...
>
>        -L, --files-without-match
>               Suppress normal output; instead print the  name  of
>               each input file from which no output would normally
>               have been printed.  The scanning will stop  on  the
>               first match.
>
> If you need to find all such files, you can easily write a loop in
> a shell script.
>
> Mark
> > How can I make the following expression
> > display only occurrences that do NOT contain the
> > searchstring.  Is this possible?
> >
> > find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;
> >
> > I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline
> > in a user config file.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > -Rick
> >
> >
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