Listing non-matching files

I use the grep command on Unix for a long time already. Nevertheless I found out that I missed something it can do.

Maybe I never looked hard enough, maybe I never really needed this: Looking for files which do not contain a certain string.

Listing all files which contain a given string is easy. For example looking for all files in the current directory containing the word "computer" would be:

grep -li computer *

The -v switch does not help when looking for files not containg a string. Instead the -L switch has to be used:

grep -iL computer *

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