egrep "^\*[^INDICATOR]" filename.txt gurhan
On 9/6/07, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a text file whose content looks like below: > > > *INDICATOR name1 zip1 > geoid gender location > *INDICATOR name2 zip2 > *geoid gender location > INDICATOR name3 zip3 > *district court > > > I want to pick up all lines starting with "*" but no "INDICATOR" > followed. > > > So for the example above, I want to pick up the following 2 lines: > > > (the 3rd line) *geoid gender location > (the last line) *district court > > > How to construct regular expression with grep as a one-line command to > achieve this goal? Or any other simple solutions? > Thank you! > > Zhao > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
