Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On 9/6/07, *G.O.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > egrep "^\*[^INDICATOR]" filename.txt
That excludes lines beginning with * and any of the characters INDCATOR, i.e. *N, *D, etc will all be excluded. > That didn't work for me, but this did: > > egrep '^\*[^I][^N][^I][^D][^I][^C][^A][^T][^O][^R]' filename.txt That will exclude a line that matches INDICATOR at any character, for example *aN perhaps this: egrep -P "^\*(?!INDICATOR)" filename.txt Kent _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
