Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need a little help, trying to search for a line that begins with /dev > and ends with a single digit that I will choose, like 5. I can search for > ^/dev and 5$ but I am having trouble forming the combined search pattern > using egrep. If you mean any single digit not preceded by another digit: ^/dev.*[^0-9][0-9]$ -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos