[ILUG] regexp to match anything except a line that starts with something specific

[Aidan Delaney]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:38 +0200, Paul Dunne wrote:
> Caolan asked,
> 
>     I'm trying to make a regexp which will match any
>     line except a line that starts with "slot:" I've got
>     ^([^s]|s[^l]|sl[^o]|slo[^t]|slot[^:]).* which matches any line that
>     doesn't have "slot:" in it, but lines that don't start with "slot:"
>     but nevertheless contain it are still matched by the regexp. Any
>     ideas ? It's got to be a regexp for other constraints.
grep -v "^slot:" filename

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