How to search for lines that don’t contain a particular pattern is fairly easy in some programs, obscure in others, and almost impossible yet in others. That is, assuming your program of choice supports regular expressions. I review how to achieve this functionality in Perl, Vim, grep, and vi.
Overview The UNIX grep utility marked the birth of a global regular expression print (GREP) tools. Searching for patterns in text is important operation in a number of domains, including program comprehension and software maintenance, structured text databases, indexing file systems, and searching natural language texts. Such a wide range of uses inspired the development […]