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Old 01-10-2011
PCRE negative lookahead

I have read many tutorials and cannot get this to work. I need to use pcre (because that is what the library in the software we are using uses) and pcregrep everything except /home from the /etc/fstab

Code:
pcregrep '(?!/home)' /etc/fstab

It returns the entire fstab (This is on a RHEL5 machine). What am i doing wrong. Is there any better way to do this with a Perl compatible regular expression

Thanks,

Sean
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Old 01-10-2011
Why not just use:
Code:
grep -v /home /etc/fstab

( or pcregrep -v /home /etc/fstab )

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With negative lookahead try:
Code:
pcregrep '^(?!.*/home)' etc/fstab


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