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Re: Using grep to search for files that do not contain a string
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Matthew Wakeling |
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Re: Using grep to search for files that do not contain a string |
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:19:10 +0000 (GMT) |
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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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