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From: pat@ctycal.UUCP (Patrick Woo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: how to grep multiply strings
Keywords: grep regular expression
Message-ID: <531@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 18:32:00 GMT
Organization: The City of Calgary, Ab
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I am trying to display line that doesn't contain string1 or string2 or ...
stringn.

What I did was

grep -v string1 | grep -v string2 | .... | grep -v stringn

Just wondering if there is an easier way other than doing all this piping.
Thanks in advance.

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