On Sun 21 Oct 2018 at 05:25:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/20/2018 08:16 PM, John Crawley wrote: > > On 20/10/2018 19.28, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > ...I would have expected to use an explicit pipe command > > > between 'find' and 'grep'. > > > > In fact, depending on the exact conditions of your search, you > > might not need to use find at all. 'grep -r' will do a recursive > > search, starting at whatever directory you give it, looking inside > > every file for some content. Like: > > > > grep -r 'keyword_or_regex' dirname > > > > Of course, 'man grep' for various options... > > > > I wish a list of files with a specific extension in a directory which > contain keywordA but not keywordB. Recursing down the directory tree > was the primary objection to the MATE search tool.
At last, a direct question! $ grep -L keywordB $(grep -l keywordA a-directory/*extension) Mix with quotes according to taste and needs. Cheers, David.
