[wellylug] Is there a good way to....

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <20040129054906.90856.qmail at web12202.mail.yahoo.com>, Wood Brent writes:
>If you have a few patterns, which do not easily fit a single regexp, just pipe
>the output through successive grep -v commands in a single statement to filter
>them all out.

man 1 egrep

Ewen

PS: Now I re-read the original psuedo code, it looks like you want to
    keep lines matching some pattern; in which case "grep" (and its
    friends) sans the "-v" would do just fine.  Use whichever allows you
    to best describe what you want to keep (ie, "keep these" or "keep
    anything but these").