Timeline for Pipe find into grep -v
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| Jul 6, 2012 at 15:00 | comment | added | lornix | {Grin} yeah, somewhere in there the logic got all hairy. Nothing like an inversed false logic multiple test to make your head hurt. | |
| Jul 6, 2012 at 14:58 | comment | added | James Youngman |
xargs -0 grep -v "something something" should be xargs -0 grep -v "something something" /dev/null otherwise you will get odd results when find produces no matching files.
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| Jul 5, 2012 at 19:21 | history | edited | lornix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 620 characters in body. Added -L option to show files without matches
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| Jul 5, 2012 at 19:17 | comment | added | lornix | he's looking for specific contents in the *.java files | |
| Jul 5, 2012 at 19:14 | comment | added | user732 | If the author of the question just wants to find filenames, shouldn't the grep be 'grep -l -v'? | |
| Jul 5, 2012 at 19:14 | comment | added | Hyangelo | I tried your modifications and I'm still not getting the result I am expecting. I'll try updating the question to make it clearer. | |
| Jul 5, 2012 at 19:08 | history | answered | lornix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |