Re: grep help with cygwin

[Matthew Woehlke]

sdnabble wrote:
> grep "Some_String_" file1.txt | grep [^P]LACED > tempout.txt
>
> Right away it didn't work. For some reason I can't say look for Some_String_
> NOT containing the word PLACED. So I looked and looked through documentation
> and could not figure out why this doesn't work. Isn't that how to use "NOT"?

RTFM. It is, if you want to look for all six-character strings ending 
with "LACED" that are not "PLACED". You probably want '-v'.

> Can I append stuff to file1.txt once I get the needed XY information?

Yes. RTF bash M, in particular see "redirection".


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