On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote: > Which grep (or egrep, fgrep) options do I have to use to extract all > lines from a file except a lines containing a given string. From the grep manpage: [...] -v, --invert-match Invert the sense of matching, to select non-match- ing lines. [...] snafu Martin -- victory for hemp!