Re: grep and delete

[Emmanuel Lacour <elacour@easter-eggs.com>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:32:04PM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:20:25PM +0200, Olivier Macchioni wrote:
> > ++ 25/04/03 13:44 +0200 - Craig:
> > >Hi Guys
> > >
> > >I need to grep log files and delete certain criteria. Any ideas
> > >and how I can do this ?
> > 
> > cat logfile | grep -v criteria1 | grep -v criteria2 > logfile.new
> > 
> 
> grep -Ev "criteria1|criteria2" > logfile.new
> 
Ouch:

grep -Ev "criteria1|criteria2" logfile > logfile.new
                               ^^^^^^^ 

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