[ale] Flat file post-processing - drop records based on text string

[Geoffrey]

brucelists at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hey - I've got a basic question. I have a huge text file, and am
> looking to drop records based on what is found in the text string. If
> a record has the text "rs232", "slip", "decnet" or "VA-1" anywhere in
> it, I want to drop it. If not, I want to keep the record.
> 
> Is there a simple string I can use to do this? I'm not sure if I just
> want to run a search string, or go Perl - but either way, I have a
> huge filebut most of needs to be dropped.

perl:

while (<>) { /rs232|slip|decnet|VA-1/ && next; print; }

awk:

'/rs232|slip|decnet|VA-1/ {next}; {print $0;}'

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Until later, Geoffrey