Where can I ask a Unix/grep question?

[MMock]

I saw a forum for Linux, but not Unix. I have a question regarding grep. Please move me if necessary.

The grep I am using is GNU utilities for Win32 and I am using it to search my legacy ASP files for CreateObject. Most of the ASP files I've converted to .NET, but some remain. We are moving from a hosting company to our own servers and I need to make sure all the 3rd-party software that my web application interfaces with will be available for the ASP pages.

There are tons of CreateObject ADODB.Connection. I don't care about these. So can I pipe the output of grep into another grep and say exclude ADODB.Connection? I tried this,

grep CreateObject *.asp | grep -L ADODB

which returned

grep: writing output: Invalid Argument

Thanks for any help.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I would post in the Linux Forum. The Grep command is in Linux too !

[abhijit]

I saw a forum for Linux, but not Unix. I have a question regarding grep. Please move me if necessary.

The grep I am using is GNU utilities for Win32 and I am using it to search my legacy ASP files for CreateObject. Most of the ASP files I've converted to .NET, but some remain. We are moving from a hosting company to our own servers and I need to make sure all the 3rd-party software that my web application interfaces with will be available for the ASP pages.

There are tons of CreateObject ADODB.Connection. I don't care about these. So can I pipe the output of grep into another grep and say exclude ADODB.Connection? I tried this,

grep CreateObject *.asp | grep -L ADODB

which returned

grep: writing output: Invalid Argument

Thanks for any help.

I know very little about grep, but the grep on Unix does not accept an Upper case "L".

[MMock]

It's not true UNIX grep. I got that switch from doing a "grep --help".

[abhijit]

It's not true UNIX grep. I got that switch from doing a "grep --help".

In Unix, I would do this

for i in $(find ./ -type f | grep sql$); do  grep -l CreateObject $i; done 

Logically in Windows, you would have to write a Windows Script to do this.

Another option I can suggest is using Notepad++ to search through your files, if that's what you want to do. This is a freeware utility.

[RobDog888]

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[penagate]

In GNU grep, the -v parameter inverts the match...

grep "CreateObject" *.asp | grep -v "ADODB"