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Hi,

I need small help from you people.

In a directory there are around 150 odd files and few them contain the word "TRACK" and few are not.
How can I find out the the list of those files which doesn't contain the word "TRACK"?

Thanks,
Siba

2 
grep -vl TRACK *

If it contains subdirectories, you might want to add a -R.

3

Hi zaxxon,

No, It's not giving the expected result. It gives me all the files in that directory.

I think it should Because when we issue command

grap -v "TRACK" *

It gives the line which doesn't contain the word "TRACK" so

grep -vl "TRACK" *

would also gives all the file names because only few lines in file contains the word "TRACK". But I need to discard those file which contain the word "TRACK". grep with -vl option is not working.

Though I am using one script for this purpose. The script is like

for fname in `ls *sh`
do
#echo $fname
`grep -q "TRACK" $fname`
if [  $? == 1 ];then
echo "$fname"
fi
done
4 
ls >tmplist ; grep -l TRACK * | grep -vf - tmplist

ls | while read a ; do ( ! grep -l TRACK $a >/dev/null ) && echo $a ;done
5

You're right - my answer was wrong, sorry.