Re: Using grep

On 2006-02-27, Fernando Rodríguez wrote:

Hi,

How can I make grep return all the files that do NOT match a given pattern?

Files do not match (or NOT match) a pattern; lines within the file
do (or do not).

I'd like to have a list f all files that do NOT contain the text "addCookies".

for file in *
do
grep "addCookies" "$file" > /dev/null 2>&1 || printf "%s\n" "$file"
done

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