> then I want to cut out the files which don't contain the string 'NOIADM'. > > So I did: > > for i in `cat /tmp/iadmos` ; do egrep -lv 'NOIADM' $i ; done > > which gave me all 28 file name. I wondered about it, so I tried: > > for i in `cat /tmp/iadmos` ; do egrep -l 'NOIADM' $i ; done > > which gave me 4 file i checked them they contain 'NOIADM' but why first egrep > finds that they don't?
-lv lists files which contain a non-matching line. You want -L. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
