> For me these work with regular grep: > $ grep "\-1$" summary.txt > $ grep -v "\-1$" summary.txt > > grep _does_ complain about the non-escaped minus mark.
Didn't work..... and then a neuron fired!!! DOS format files! -- $ cat summary.txt | dos2unix | egrep -v -e "-1$" | tail 475212.000 51.10411832844 -114.04478815286 3 12 475506.000 51.10411826324 -114.04478803905 4 6 475961.000 51.10411816981 -114.04478800867 122 161 476104.000 51.10411824559 -114.04478800227 3 4 476609.000 51.10411831786 -114.04478817894 129 209 477169.000 51.10411832040 -114.04478816533 165 169 477311.000 51.10411828605 -114.04478819246 3 11 478174.000 51.10411834941 -114.04478804193 62 274 478442.000 51.10411833032 -114.04478822637 169 242 478521.000 51.10411824799 -114.04478824568 7 21 -- Horay, Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

