using grep to find a file that does not contain a word.

Alta

I have a bunch of files that I want to find the ones that do not contain a word. I think that I can use grep to do this but I am not sure. does anyone know how to do this?

MikeH

Use the -v option to grep to invert the search results.

grep -v "text" *

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Alta	using grep to find a file that does not contain a word. Tweet I have a bunch of files that I want to find the ones that do not contain a word. I think that I can use grep to do this but I am not sure. does anyone know how to do this?

MikeH	Use the -v option to grep to invert the search results. grep -v "text" *