a simple question about grep

[Whelan, Paul]

grep '[^*?INDICATOR]' filename.txt

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[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:38 PM
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: a simple question about grep


Hi, 


I have a text file whose content looks like below: 


*INDICATOR name1 zip1 
geoid gender location 
*INDICATOR name2 zip2 
*geoid gender location 
INDICATOR name3 zip3 
*district court 


I want to pick up all lines starting with "*" but no "INDICATOR" 
followed. 


So for the example above, I want to pick up the following 2 lines: 


(the 3rd line) *geoid gender location 
(the last line) *district court 


How to construct regular expression with grep as a one-line command to
achieve this goal? Or any other simple solutions?


Thank you!

Zhao

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