topic Re: finding files in Operating System - HP-UX

finding files

Roberto Gallis — Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:45:10 GMT

Hi all,
I need on hp-ux 11 to find files that does not contain a particular word.
For example I need to find all files that the word "willy" is not present.
Anybody can help me?

Roberto

Re: finding files

Andreas Voss — Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:52:37 GMT

Hi,

here you are:

find ! -name '*willy*' -print

Regards

Re: finding files

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:56:32 GMT

Roberto:

# grep -v willy *

This will operate on all files in the current directory displaying the filenames where "willy" does NOT exist.

...JRF...

Re: finding files

Rodney Hills — Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:58:00 GMT

This method is good when you are searching a specific set of subdirectories

find /thedirectory -print | xargs grep -c "willy" | grep ":0$"

The "-c" option of grep returns number of lines that pattern exists. The second grep will display those filenames that don't have "willy".

Re: finding files

Joseph C. Denman — Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:05:17 GMT

if you are looking for file containing the word willy and not willy in the file name, try this:

Go to the dir you wish to search

find . -type f | while read line
do
if grep "willy" $line > /dev/null
then
echo $line
fi
done

Re: finding files

Roberto Gallis — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:46:15 GMT

Hi,

grep -v willy *
display the content of all files except the lines containing "willy"

Scripts of Joseph and Rodney do what I need.
Thank you all
Sincerly
Roberto

Re: finding files

Roberto Gallis — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:08:11 GMT

for Joseph:

I've added -v to the line
if grep "paperino" $line > /dev/null
and had what I need.
Thanks

Regards
Roberto