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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:06 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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;}'

windows: fdisk /mba
> 
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