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Old 08-29-2005
grep - to exclude lines beginning with pattern
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Can I use grep command to exclude all lines beginning with 13?
I dont want to use grep -v 13 as potentially there will be a number with something like 11013 that I would exclude in error..
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Old 08-29-2005
You can have a regex as a search pattern for grep.

Code:
grep -v '^13' myfile

Vino
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Old 08-29-2005
Perfect- couldnt remember the syntax..

Thanks!! Smilie Smilie
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