Hi, I want to get the file names under a directory that doesn't have the search string which i'm searching. I tried with grep -vl "searchstring", but that doesn't work. By roundabout method I can do this using a script, but can this be done in a single line ?

find /path_to_search ! -iname 'search_string' Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!

hi paulsep, I'm using solaris, the iname option doesn't work.Any other way to do this?.

So simply try the same but use -name instead of -iname. find /path_to_search ! -name 'search_string' Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!

that doesn't work..pls find the results $grep wnla * perl_time_list:perl -wnla -e ' ($f1, $f2, $f3, $f4, $f5, $f6, $f7, $f8, $f9, $f10)=@F; $find . ! -name "wnla" . ./test1 ./in.dat ./temp1 ./ls_nawk ./count_days ./perl_time ./perl_time_list ./temp1.bak $