Re: grep regex

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Emil Pedersen wrote:
> 
> "Schnorbus, Patrick" wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > may you help me? i need a regex for grep, to find lines containing NOT:
> > ^192.168
> > 212.23.138
> 
> Hi.
> 
> The '-v' flag "inverse" the meaning of grep, letting lines _not_
> matching regexp through.
> 
>         grep -v -e ^192.168 -e 212.23.138
> 
> would skip lines starting with "192.168" and lines containing
> "212.23.138" (anywhere in line since there is no '^' starting the
> regexp).
> 
> Try "man grep" for a better explanation/overview of grep capabilities.

  . matches any single character, if you want real dot you need \. or
[.]

	erik