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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:41:41PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> how can i create a regexp which will match anystring of the form
> "the xxxxxx is big"
> unless xxxxxx is "house"
>
> ?
>
> using [^house] obviously doesn't work... what can i use then?
Um...
grep 'the .* is big' | grep -v 'house' < input
Not what you wanted, I'd expect, since it's not one regexp. What
you're asking for, though, is conceptually two separate things.
(There's no way to phrase that isn't two separate clauses... "Look
for X, except when it contains Y.")
But then, maybe there's some kludgey glue in sed to make this work
that I'm just not 'leet enough to know. ;^>
~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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