[ale] Reverse of the 'cut' program

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 14:25:05 EST 2015


grep -v "string to not see" <log file>

On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 14:16 -0500, Justin Goldberg wrote:
> I am trying to parse a log file and exclude the lines that contain any
> one of a few different strings, for example "don't show ones that
> contain google.com or ones that yahoo.com" for example.
> 
> I'm guessing that sed or awk would fit this purpose.
> 
> I looked on the web but didn't find any examples that made sense to
> this Linux newbie.
> 
> Any replies or pointers will be greatly appreciated!
> 
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