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From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman)
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Subject: Re: awk pattern matching
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If your list is small, perhaps attacking the problem from the other direction
would work.  For instance, if you were looking for entries other than "root"
and "me", any of the following scripts will work.  You might want to determine
empirically which is best (fastest, whatever).

Script #1:

$6 ~ /^root/	{ next }
$6 ~ /^me/	{ next }
		{ print $0 }
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Script #2

$6 ~ /^root|^me/	{ next }
			{ print $0 }
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Script #3

$6 !~ /^root|^me/	# No, there is no action here; default is to print
# Yes, that's the whole script.
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Hopefully helpfully,

-Brent
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