How to find file that do not contain a specific string?

everpro · #1 (**permalink**) 08-09-04, 16:36

Similar to grep but want to know the file names only of the files that do not contain the word "successful". Any ideas?

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-09-04, 16:53

grep -v 'successful' *

everpro · #3 (**permalink**) 08-10-04, 09:52

includes the files that DO have the word successful..... because it displays all of the other lines in that file. Any other ideas?

everpro · #4 (**permalink**) 08-11-04, 13:27

for i in `cat list` (where list is a list of files you are grepping)
do
if ! grep success $i > /dev/null
then
echo "$i"
fi
done