grep help

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:27:51PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote:
>> I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not 
>> have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4.  Some basic help with the 
>> use of grep would be appreciated. This is one of the arguments I've 
>> tried that didn't work:
>> 
>> grep ^[^1.2.3.4]*$ logfile.log 

You should probably single quote the pattern at the '^' character is an
archaic synonym for the pipe symbol, and the * may be expanded by the
shell.

Bill
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