Question

In linux, I want to search the given directoy and its sub-folders/files for certain include and exclude pattern.

find /apps -exec grep "performance" -v "warn" {} /dev/null \;

This echoes loads of lines from which search goes trough. I don’t want that, I’d like to find files containing performance which do not contain warn. How do I do that?

Answer 1

Very close to what you have already:

find /apps -exec grep "performance" {} /dev/null \; | grep -v "warn"

Just pipe the output through a second call to grep.