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- From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
- Subject: Re: grepping, fgrepping, and egrepping
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- Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
- References: <1992Dec11.01531.7421@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:45:04 GMT
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- iguana@mik.uky.edu writes:
- >Is there anyway to get GREP to take a given string or character
- >and return the result of validating a string WITHOUT these?
- >
- >fgrep -v 'string' <-- will return all LINES that don't have 'string'
- >in them. But I need a process that will read in a string and output
- >every character EXCEPT those in the string.
- >
-
- man sed
-
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- Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
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