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From: luj@gus17.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to grep multiply strings
Keywords: grep regular expression
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.195124.24552@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 19:51:24 GMT
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In article <531@ctycal.UUCP> pat@ctycal.UUCP (Patrick Woo) writes:
>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.
>

How about 
	egrep -v 'string1|string1|...|stringn' 
?

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