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> Hey - I've got a basic question. I have a huge text file, and am looking to
>drop records based on what is found in the text string. If a record has the
>text "rs232", "slip", "decnet" or "VA-1" anywhere in it, I want to drop it.
>If not, I want to keep the record.  >

> Is there a simple string I can use to do this? 
> I'm not sure if I just want to run a search string, or go Perl - but either
> way, I have a huge filebut most of needs to be dropped.

Well the following egrep command should do the trick:

egrep -v "rs232|slip|decnet|VA-1" hugefile

Take a try with it and see how it works for you.

BAJ


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