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Reputation: 829

How to exclude strings in grep command?

I have an array which contains list of strings.

Example: array = ("Sample","Test","Check").

I need to pass this to grep command to exclude these string while getting results. So, In the output I should not have ("Sample","Test","Check") terms. Please help me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4189

Answers (1)

Tevin Joseph K O
Tevin Joseph K O

Reputation: 2654

It can be done the following way:

grep -v -e string_to_exclude_1 -e string_to_exclude_2 file_name

For example, the following command excludes check.xml and test.xml from a file named sample.txt

grep -v -e check -e test sample.txt

sample.txt contains the following:

one.xml
two.xml
three.xml
test.xml
check.xml

Upvotes: 1

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