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

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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Until later, Geoffrey