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<font size="+1">if I have a file that has more than these two entries<br>
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bats@tt<br>
net-bats@tt<br>
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and I do a "grep -v bats" (intention was to get everything except bats
but net-bats was mistakenly grepped)<br>
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How do I specify the beginning of the line and match after that so bats
is caught not net-bats?<br>
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THanks for any suggestions.<br>
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Jerry<br>
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