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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Regular Expression Syntax 
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:58:27 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Syntax


> drew@mykitchentable.net said:
> > How can I get the opposite?  In other words, everything except
cvsup
> > or portupgrade?  I know about the ! and () for grouping but can't
seem
> > to get it in the right place.  Help.
>
> What, you mean something like...
>
>        -v, --invert-match
>               Invert  the sense of matching, to select non-match-
>               ing lines.
>
> from the grep/egrep/fgrep/zgrep man page?

Thanks for your response.

I just tried that and it returned everything but the cvsup.  But it
did return the portupgrade line which I don't want.  I know from
reading somewhere that I'm supposed to be able to take the
"portupgrade|cvsup" and negate the expression to mean "every line
except those containing portupgrade or cvsup".

Thanks,

Drew


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