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Is it possible, using grep, to search for instances of John Smith but exclude instances of Mr John Smith?
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This could be solved using a regular expression with negative lookbehind (which is experimentally supported in grep as pointed out by the comment from arrange):
$ grep -P '(?<!Mr )John Smith' file
Since the support is just experimental, you might want to use perl instead:
$ perl -nle 'print if /(?<!Mr )John Smith/' file
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