The file names are listed, not the matching lines. See man grep for details.. As far as the grep utility is itself concerned, it's unimportant that the pattern grep passed to it as an argument is the same as its name. grep -L "sl.h" *.c. I'm using GNU grep 2.5.4. Start and End of Lines. Do not forget to use the backslash before the pipe character.. Currently, this is my workaround. For instance, print all lines that do not contain the word par by using the following command: grep -v par /path/to/file 9 How to list only the names of matching files Grep NOT 7. *\swarning' log.file > tmp.txt egrep -i -v '1234' tmp.txt As long as your filenames do not contain spaces, tabs, newline or wildcard characters, and if your grep supports the -L option, you can do it as follows: $ cat file1 stringA stringC $ cat file2 stringA stringB $ grep -L stringB $(grep -l stringA file?) In the examples below, we will use grep instead of extended grep. Users may make use of the -v option to print inverts the match, which means it would match only those lines that do not contain the given word. We can force grep to only display matches that are either at the start or the end of a line. grep -v 'pattern1' filename. -v option is for invert match. grep -v "grep" takes input line by line, and outputs only the lines in which grep does not appear. I'm trying to get Grep to print all lines in a txt file that do not contain the numbers 834. To print files that do not contain extends SomethingSomething anywhere, use the -L option: grep -L -E 'extends[[:space:]]+SomethingSomething' FILENAME… Some versions of grep do not have the -L option (it is not specified by POSIX). You might be able to make it work with a complex regular expression, but you might be better off just doing: grep '[AB]' somefile.txt | grep -v '2' The R equivalent of that would be: grep("2", grep… You can also use grep directly on files just as before as well: grep -v -e "Word1" -e "Word2" example.txt. Any lines that contain “Word1” or “Word2” will be excluded from the printed results. And of course, we can look for files that don’t contain the search term. The awk solution is what I would use, but a slightly smaller process to launch is sed and it can produce the same results, but by substituting the PATH= part of the line with "", i.e.. sed -n 's/^Path=//p' file The -n overrides seds default behavior of 'print all lines' (so -n = no print), and to print a line, we add the p character after the substition. 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