a simple question about grep

[Tom Buskey]

On 9/6/07, G.O. <gurhan.ozen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> egrep "^\*[^INDICATOR]" filename.txt
>
> gurhan


That didn't work for me, but this did:

   egrep '^\*[^I][^N][^I][^D][^I][^C][^A][^T][^O][^R]' filename.txt



On 9/6/07, Jerry <greenmt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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