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

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Alta

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Oct 15, 2009

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?

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MikeH

Oct 25, 2009

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

grep -v "text" *

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

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