How can I exclude one word with grep?

Question

I need something like:

grep ^\"unwanted_word\"XXXXXXXX

Answer 1

I've a directory with a bunch of files. I want to find all the files that DO NOT contain the string "speedup" so I successfully used the following command:

grep -iL speedup *

Answer 2

Invert match using grep -v:

grep -v "unwanted word" file pattern

Answer 3

You can do it using -v (for --invert-match) option of grep as:

grep -v "unwanted_word" file | grep XXXXXXXX

grep -v "unwanted_word" file will filter the lines that have the unwanted_word and grep XXXXXXXX will list only lines with pattern XXXXXXXX.

EDIT:

From your comment it looks like you want to list all lines without the unwanted_word. In that case all you need is:

grep -v 'unwanted_word' file