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Re: grep help, how do i make this shorter?


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: grep help, how do i make this shorter?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:46 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

UniXman1234 wrote:
>  ./new1a < numbers.txt | grep -i -v '^a ' | grep -i -v '^the ' | grep -i -v
> '^or ' | sort -f
> 
> How would I go about merging all the greps into a scripe and putting all the
> words that should be excluded into a data file

Many different ways.  Look at the 'grep -f' option.  Look at using sed.

> so i would be able to execute it like
> 
> ./new < numbers.txt | exclude | sort -f

Here is one possibility.

  ./new < numbers.txt | grep -v -f exclude.txt | sort -f

HTH,
Bob




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