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Old 04-06-2006, 01:13 AM   #1
zzytech
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Command about AND / OR / NOT, help!


There are only 3 files in same directory like this:

file1
------
aaa
xxx

file2
-------
bbb
xxx

file3
-----
aaa
bbb
xxx
Two question are:

Q1. List all the files that do not contain the words 'aaa' AND 'bbb'.

Q2. List all the files that do not contain the words 'aaa' OR 'bbb'.

=============================================
For the first one, my answer is:

grep -Lw 'aaa' * | xargs -i grep -Lw 'bbb' {}

Is this correct or not?

For the second one, is that a equal one like "all the files do not contain word 'aaa' OR do not contain word 'bbb'"? If so, I think file1 and file2 should both match with follow command:

grep -ELw 'aaa|bbb' *

But after check that, I found nothing match, Why? If they are not equal question, how to work out the answer?

Anyone can help? Thanks a million!

Last edited by zzytech; 04-06-2006 at 01:15 AM.
 
Old 04-06-2006, 04:58 AM   #2
timmeke
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In my opinion, and this does sound like homework to me, Q1 should have files 1 & 2 as answer, whereas Q2 should have all of the files as answer.
OR is not the same as XOR (exclusive OR).

In standard logic, the operations AND, OR and XOR are defined as follows:

c1 - c2 - c1 AND c2 - c1 OR c2 - c1 XOR c2
F - F - F - F - F
T - F - F - T - T
F - T - F - T - T
T - T - T - T - F

So, in short, "AND" yields "T" (true) if both conditions (c1 and c2) are met at the same time.
"OR" yields true if either or both of the conditions is true.
"XOR" yields true if either of the conditions is true, but not both.

Since Q2 asks for "OR", not "XOR", all three files have either "aaa" or "bbb" (or both) in them.

As your command for Q2 yielded none of the three files, I suspect your command is wrong.
And indeed: you are asking grep to match either "aaa" or "bbb". If either is found in the file, the file is considered as "file with match". -L only shows the files that don't match.
So, replace -L with -l and you should get all the files that match "aaa" or "bbb".
 
  


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