Re: [Nolug] grepping multiple strings

"Andrew S. Johnson" <andy@asjohnson.com> writes:

> How about egrep "this.*that|that.*this". Worked for me.

Doesn't scale too well beyond two search terms though, does it?
Believe it or not, I deliberately ignored doing that example in my
reply for this reason. I very frequently do things like:

$ grep pattern1 /var/log/logfile | grep -v ignorepattern1 \
  | grep -v ignorepattern2 | less

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Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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