[CLUG] grep for files without match

[Christian van den Bosch]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, adam beecher wrote:

> I saw that Christian, but it says it'll stop after the first match and I
> have a couple hundred files that won't match by design. Anything else?

Have you tried it? For me, -l has always done what you'd intuit, i.e. list
matching files. I think it means it'll stop checking *each file* once it's
found a match *in that file* so it doesn't waste time pointlessly checking
the remainder of the file (obviously different for -L).

cjb

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