http://www.forum.askdba.org/ Forum for Oracle DBA's en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:03:59 +0000 http://www.forum.askdba.org/topic/unix-tip-finding-files-not-containing-a-pattern#post-81 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:27:41 +0000 Amit Bansal 81@http://www.forum.askdba.org/ <p>Q. How do you find files which do not contain a specific pattern say 'ORA-'<br /> A. You can use below command</p> <p>find . -name "*log" \! -exec grep -q "ORA-" {} \; -print </p>