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Date:      Wed,  5 Jan 2005 20:43:50 -0800
From:      joseph kacmarcik <freebsd-questions@chubbo.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep help
Message-ID:  <1104986630.41dcc206e3e4f@mail.chubbo.net>
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> grep ^[^1.2.3.4]*$ logfile.log

to not match, use: grep -v 1.2.3.4 logfile.log

-v, --invert-match
Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.

when there are multiple patterns you don't want to see, try:

egrep -v '1.2.3.4|5.6.7.8' logfile.log

joe



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