On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:28, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:30, Jan Karjalainen wrote: > > [..] > > >> I found the expression: .+LOG.+ > > > >You're still making it too complicated for programs such as ed, vi, > >grep, egrep or sed, patterns are not required to match the whole > > line. That means the ".+" parts are redundant. If you really want > > to exclude from treatment those lines where "LOG" occurs at the > > beginning or end, then use the pattern ".LOG." (sans quotes, of > > course). > > That means 'one arbitrary character' "LOG" 'one arbitrary character', > which is something else.
How so? It will match LOG as long as it's not at the beginning or end of a line, which is what I said. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
