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Re: Using grep to search for files that do not contain a string


From: Matthew Wakeling
Subject: Re: Using grep to search for files that do not contain a string
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:19:10 +0000 (GMT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, ewgoforth wrote:
I know that I can search for lines that do not contain a string.  However,
the -v option doesn't appear to work with the -l option.  Is this possible.

It works perfectly. Please read the manual.

You probably want "-L", rather than "-vl".

Matthew

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