Thanks. Those two are the only occurances:

cat file | grep ^+ | grep -v ^+++ | grep -v Wildfire

(Yes one can grep without prior cat, but most often I first cat the file to decide what I'm going to grep for)

(Yes one can grep without prior cat, but most often I first cat the file to decide what I'm going to grep for)

Useless use of cat is something to avoid when writing a script, for actually figuring out what to do I tend to do similar things, though I tend to start with a recursive grep most of the time (then pipe that to a few more grep instances, even though one could just pass that to the first one...).