I need some help with pcre grep, I am unsure if it is OK to post for help here, so please tell me if it is not.

Here is what i am trying to accomplish. I need to grep anything out of the /etc/passwd with a UID of 205 or greater and that does not start with a - . The software we are using, cfengine, requires the use of a pcre. So far i have:

pcregrep -v ".*:.*:(-|1)?[0-9]{1,2}:.*:.*:.*" /etc/passwd

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But that yields anything above 200, any help would be appreciated.

If anyone know any great webpages for pcre grep I would love to be pointed that direction. I am not that great with perl regular expressions, but would like to learn more.

Thanks,

Sean

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