How can we list all files in a directory NOT containing a particular string pattern using find/grep/xargs or any other unix command?

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Suppose I have a directory with a list of files having .log extension and i need to find out those log files which do not contain abc. How would we do that?

someone else asked the same question not long ago: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1748129/using-grep-to-find-files-that-doesnt-contain-a-given-string-pattern — endo.anaconda, Nov 16 '11 at 11:08

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '11 at 11:06

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find .  -not  -ipath '.*log' -exec  grep  -H -E -o -c  "abc"  {} \; | grep :0\$

or you could install ack

ack -L foo

answered Nov 16 '11 at 11:06

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How can we list all files in a directory NOT containing a particular string pattern using find/grep/xargs or any other unix command?

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