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    <p>The short answer is along the lines of:</p> <pre><code>grep "abc[^(?:def)]*ghi" ./testregex </code></pre> <p>That's based on a testregex file like so:</p> <pre><code>abcghiabc abcdefghi abcghi </code></pre> <p>The output will be:</p> <pre><code>$ grep "abc[^(?:def)]*ghi" ./testregex abcghiabc abcghi </code></pre> <p>Mapped to your use-case, I'd wager this translates roughly to:</p> <pre><code>grep -lri "stringA[^(?:stringB)]*stringC" ./*.sql </code></pre> <p>Note that I've removed the ".*" between each string, since that will match the very string that you're attempting to exclude.</p> <p>Update: The original question now calls out line breaks, so use grep's -z flag:</p> <pre><code>-z </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>suppress newline at the end of line, subtituting it for null character. That is, grep knows where end of line is, but sees the input as one big line.</p> </blockquote> <p>Thus:</p> <pre><code>grep -lriz "stringA[^(?:stringB)]*stringC" ./*.sql </code></pre> <p>When I first had to use this approach myself, I wrote up the following explanation...</p> <blockquote> <p>Specifically: I wanted to match "any character, any number of times, non-greedy (so defer to subsequent explicit patterns), and NOT MATCHING THE SEQUENCE />".</p> <p>The last part is what I'm writing to share: "not matching the sequence />". This is the first time I've used character sequences combined with "any character" logic.</p> <p>My target string:</p> <p><code>&lt;img class="photo" src="http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/49c7a10a-4a45-4530-9564-d058f70b9e5e.png" alt="Iron or Gold" /&gt;</code></p> <p>My first attempt:</p> <p><code>&lt;img.*?class="photo".*?src=".*?".*?/&gt;</code></p> <p>This worked in online regex testers, but failed for some reason within my actual Java code. Through trial and error, I found that replacing every ".<em>?" with "[^&lt;>]</em>?" was successful. That is, instead of "non-greedy matching of any character", I could use "non-greedy matching of any character except &lt; or >".</p> <p>But, I didn't want to use this, since I've seen alt text which includes these characters. In my particular case, I wanted to use the character sequence "/>" as the exclusion sequence -- once that sequence was encountered, stop the "any character" matching.</p> <p>This brings me to my lesson:</p> <p>Part 1: Character sequences can be achieved using (?:regex). That is, use the () parenthesis as normal for a character sequence, but prepend with "?:" in order to prevent the sequence from being matched as a target group. Ergo, "(?:/>)" would match "/>", while "(?:/>)*" would match "/>/>/>/>".</p> <p>Part 2: Such character sequences can be used in the same manner as single characters. That is, "[^(?:/>)]*?" will match any character EXCEPT the sequence "/>", any number of times, non-greedy.</p> <p>That's pretty much it. The keywords for searching are "non-capturing groups" and "negative lookahead|lookbehind", and the latter feature goes much deeper than I've gone so far, with additional flags that I don't yet grok. But the initial understanding gave me the tool I needed for my immediate task, and it's a feature that I've wondered about for awhile -- thus, I figured I'd share the basic introduction in case any of you were curious about tucking it away in your toolset.</p> </blockquote>
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    1. COso will this match the pattern if i have other text between those strings, e.g. "stringA[bunch of text]stringB[bunch of text][stringC]?
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    2. CO@return_false: I thought it wouldn't, but when I tested it, it actually does. I guess I'll have to study study this one to understand why it works. +1 from me.
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