Quoting Jon Lindgren (08-Jun-01 16:21:46):

> On 8 Jun 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:

>> Hi.
>> 
>> Possibly off-topic, but someone here should know the answer.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>>     # grep "list all lines except" 'foobar'

> From 'man grep':

> -v, --invert-match
>   Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.

> [a polite reminder to RTFM :-) ]

Yes, you are right ;)

I was searching for "exclude" or "excluding" in the man pages. I spent
quite some time though ...

Thanks!

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