CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bashgrep
CodeDevotion
CodeDevotion

Reputation: 307

Find the files that doesn't have a string or having it but commented out

Below are the sample files in which I am looking for the files that doesnt have the word "DEF" or is commented out if exists.

cat text.txt_1
ABC
DEF
GHI

cat text.txt_2
ABC
#DEF
GHI

cat text.txt_3
ABC
GHI

I am trying to do something like this grep -Lr "DEF" . || grep -iwr "DEF" . | grep "^#" but it is not working

Thanks in Advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 47

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785128

If you have gnu grep then use:

grep -zvlr '^[^#]*DEF'

Otherwise, you can use awk with find:

find . -type f -name 'text.*' -exec awk '/^[^#]*DEF/{p=1} END{if (!p) print FILENAME}' {} \;

Upvotes: 1

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