Bill Ricker wrote: >> Or, if you only have an old grep, but do have Perl, the following should >> work: > > The Andy and the "ack" project have built a better grep with perl.
Cool. By default ack ignores plain text files, so you have to tell it to include them even when explicitly specifying the file. Here is an ack command that solves the OP's problem: ack --text '^\*(?!INDICATOR)' myfile.txt Kent _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
