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Recursively find all documents that match a file name and contain a string
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I need to recursively find all documents where the file name matches a certain pattern ('index*') and that contain a certain string ('update'). How do I do this in Linux?Answer:
You need a combination of find to locate those index* files and grep to only list those that have the keyword 'update' in it.The following command will do the trick.
Note: if you want a 'negative search', meaning list all documents that do NOT contain 'update', then add the -v parameter to grep.
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# -l lets grep just put out the filename find index* -exec grep -l update {} \; # -v does a negative search # show all documents that do NOT contain 'update' find index* -exec grep -l -v update {} \; | ||
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