Hi, I just can't seem to get the hang of regular expressions. I am trying to use grep to look at relevant lines in my system log, for example I can do this:
>grep -v named /var/adm/daemon.log This shows all but the lines containing the word "named" (because my named daemon shows a lot of garbage on boot up). But there are several lines I would like to leave out, like those containing the word "smtpd". I have not been able to figure out how to combine the two strings so that grep -v ignores both of them, I've had to resort to >grep -v named /var/adm/daemon.log | grep -v smtpd It seems silly to have to run grep a separate time for each string I wish to exclude, can someone tell me how to combine the strings in the manner that I desire? Thank you kindly, Steve
