Re: Finding files which does not contain a specific string

From: all mail refused (elvis_at_notatla.org.uk)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: 18 Jun 2004 17:03:42 GMT

In article <3c4shlto.fsf@online.no>, Peter J. Acklam wrote:

>First I'd build a list of all the files
> find DIR -type f | sort > all.tmp
>
>Then I'd build a list of all files which *do* contain "string"
> find DIR -type f -exec grep -q 'string' {} \; -a -print | \
> sort > with-matches.tmp
>
>Then I'd compare the two files and print those without matches
> comm -13 matches.tmp all.tmp
>
>Maybe not the most efficient, but it works.

find2perl, slurp mode 

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