Re: How to find lines not matching a certain pattern - ie grep -v

[Barry Margolin]

In article <6a41f4ac-f7e7-49f1-a593-501d82d4c733@googlegroups.com>,
 gnuist006@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Once in a while I have to do something to lines that do not have a certain 
> string or set of strings in them. I know how to find lines with a string. I 
> also know how to find lines with a set of strings, ie by using the regexp
> 
> string1\|string2\| ....
> 
> But I dont know how to find strings that do not have the string or strings.

You could copy the buffer to another buffer, then use M-x flush-lines to 
delete the matching lines. What's left are the non-matching lines.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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