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Re: grep syntax

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Mayson)
Wed Nov 4 00:05:01 1998

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:03:02 -0600 (CST)
From: John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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ls /var/lock | grep -v ttyC[45]

---
John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
"Linux... the choice of a GNU generation"


> EXCEPTIONS="ttyC4 ttyC5"
> 
> command ls /var/lock | grep tty[SC] | {filter out $EXCEPTIONS}
> 
> I can filter out the exception with "grep -v ttyC4 | grep -v ttyC0", but
> I need to be able to feed it a variable that contians a list of some
> sort.  
> 
> thanks in advance :-)
> --
> robert
> 
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