Hi Confreres,

I want to have all files that have green or red or blue in the text BUT not the string "green red blue", in a dir!

# parenthesis only to show that this is one string! # the string "green red blue" can/is several times in the text

When "green", "red", "blue" is in the text together with the string "green red blue" anywhere in the text than too!

example? 

text1:
you can use green red blue.
the mountain was green!
yes, use green red blue.

text2:
you can use green red blue.
the mountain was more a hill!

text3:
you can use colors.
the mountain was blue!
text1, text2, text3 are in one dir result should be: text1 text3

In reply to regexp exclude a string by Murcia

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