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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T19:43:29+00:00 2026-05-15T19:43:29+00:00

On my OS X command line, I would like to find all files ending

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On my OS X command line, I would like to find all files ending in .per that are missing the string ‘connection_id’.

How do I go about doing this. Finding the files that have a given string is easy but am not sure how to do this if the string is missing.

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    2026-05-15T19:43:29+00:00Added an answer on May 15, 2026 at 7:43 pm
    find . -name '*.per' \! -exec grep -q 'connection_id' {} \; -print
    
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