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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: Regular Expression Syntax 
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:01:14 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Syntax


> ----- 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

Never mind.  The -v switch *does* work.  It's my eyes that don't.

Thanks,

Drew

> 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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