Find and List files containing/not containg a certain string


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Find and List all the files with extension .file containing/not containing the given string "STRING"

The snippet is set to "containing", to switch it to "not containg" just replace "grep -l" with "grep -L"

containing : grep -l
not containing: grep -L


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  1. find . -type f -name "*.file" | xargs grep -l "STRING"

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