[sf-lug] shell, man(1) [was: path name expansion]

Alex Kleider akleider at sonic.net
Sat Aug 20 17:19:05 PDT 2016


On 2016-08-20 09:04, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 08:59 -0700, Alex Kleider wrote:
>> I don't understand the grep -v '^XT' part.
> 
> It means lines that do not start with XT.


man grep
....
        -v, --invert-match
               Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching 
lines.  (-v
               is specified by POSIX.)

Now I get the syntax, but why?




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