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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk pattern matching
Message-ID: <722@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 14:09:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 14:09:46 1987
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Keywords: awk, patterns, matches

In article <1092@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>
>   I am attempting to write a small awk script which will scan my sulog file
>for attempts to su by any but a small list of user names.  I can't seem to get
>the thing to work.


Have you tried

	egrep -v 'name1|name2|name3' sulog


That seems to be the simplest way to solve your problem.


..todd
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