This code works well

RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 /directory/contact-us/ http://www.google.com/
RedirectMatch 301 /directory/company/ http://www.yahoo.com/

but lets say I want to replace those with a wildcard that
sends any page OTHER than the homepage http://www.bing.com/

Basically I want to do something like this:
RedirectMatch 301 /directory/*/ http://www.bing.com/

What is the correct regular expression for this type of 301 command?

path/.*$

Okay maybe I should explain that.

. (fullstop/period/dot) matches any character except line breaks

* indicates one or more matches

$ means "to end of string"

Originally Posted by chrishirst

path/.*$

Regex makes my brain cry.

What do the "." the "*" and the "$" each mean?

If I may be so bold?

Originally Posted by TWD

Regex makes my brain cry.

What do the "." the "*" and the "$" each mean?

If I may be so bold?

See the pre-emptive strike

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Okay maybe I should explain that.

Yeah I know, nobody loves a smartarse!!

Thank you sir.

It's all freakin Egyptian Hieroglyphics to me.