Re: RFC: invert-match with files-with-matches

[Paul Eggert]

Felipe Kellermann <address@hidden> writes:

> Not exactly.  Just extending the utilities of a flag (invert).

Sorry, no, the standard is clear that the behavior you describe is
correct, and grep should not change from this.  -v directly affects
only whether matching lines are selected, so both "grep -vl foo bar"
and "grep -l foo bar" can (and typically will) output "bar".

You can use "grep -L foo bar" to get the behavior you want, assuming
you have GNU grep.