[ale] Reverse of the 'cut' program

[DJ-Pfulio]

egrep -v 'regex1|regex2|regex3' ....

Or you can pipe the output through egrep -v a few times to remove more and more
lines.

Sure, you can use a scripting language, but why?  BTW - I'd use perl. ;)

On 02/10/2015 02:22 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> grep -v <exclude pattern>
> 
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com
> <mailto:justgold79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I am trying to parse a log file and exclude the lines that contain any one
>     of a few different strings, for example "don't show ones that contain
>     google.com <http://google.com> or ones that yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>"
>     for example.
> 
>     I'm guessing that sed or awk would fit this purpose.
> 
>     I looked on the web but didn't find any examples that made sense to this
>     Linux newbie.
> 
>     Any replies or pointers will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 


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