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How could I do this?

Rob Johnson_3 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:57:37 GMT

I want to do a find in several directories for all files with a .cfg extension that don't contain several strings of text and return the names of those files. I'm in the brain storming mode here and looking for ideas. Oh yea, I'm terrible when it comes to scripting.

example strings to search for:
'string 1 with spaces'
'string 2 with spaces'
'string 3 with spaces'
'string 4 with spaces'
'string 5 with spaces'
'string 6 with spaces'

Re: How could I do this?

D Block 2 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:11:39 GMT

Re: How could I do this?

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:32:14 GMT

Small modification:

egrep -vl "string1|string2" `find directories -name *.cfg -type f`

The -l option will list the filenames.

Re: How could I do this?

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:57:11 GMT

You can use find + xargs or find with -exec to do this easily as,

find -type f -name "*.cfg" | xargs grep -El 'string *|string1 *|string2 *'

or

find -type f -name "*.cfg" -exec grep -El 'string *|string1 *|string2 *' {} \+

hth.

Re: How could I do this?

Arturo Galbiati — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:00:54 GMT

Hi,
cat>/tmp/string_to_search<

Re: How could I do this?

Nguyen Anh Tien — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:18:55 GMT

I like to do like this
find -type f -name "*.cfg" | xargs grep -El 'string *|string1 *|string2 *'

you can know more by
#man xargs
Some things like Muthukumar
HTH