regular expression blindness

Hi,

sorry, this may be a very stupdi question (tm) but...

I try to find an error-line in a very longis tar output log
(and do later some editing with it). By the way...I am doing this
on Linux...:)

Except for the error reporting line all lines start with '\.\/' but
I dont know it contents. Searching for 'error' gives me be far to many
hits from regular files (listed in the log).

So...I am trying to find any line NOT starting with '\.\/' (dot
slash).

I can invert a singe character with [^c] (meaning anything not 'c')
and I can NOT find alternatives...

But how can I NOT find a sepecific sequence of characters at the
beginning of a line?

Thank you ver much for any help!

Best regards and have a nice weekend!
mcc




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