Bill, you caught me red-handed. I was hoping you'd do the heavy lifting to offer up an awk equivalent template for findstr.
Andrew 8) p.s. Goran, grep is your friend. Use fgrep as a straight substitute for find, but fgrep is a magnitude faster. Use egrep to do nifty things like Bill's "or" example, or regular expressions. There's definitely a learning curve with regexp, particularly in learning special characters and quoting, but the effort is worth it. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Find Command ----- Original Message ----- From: "Goran Jovanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Find /V "PhraseA" orig.txt >temp1.txt > Find /V "PhraseB" temp1.txt >temp2.txt > Find /V "PhraseC" temp2.txt >final.txt > > Now if this is all I had to do OK fine but over time I am going to > accumulate more things to remove. So is there any way to pass the find > command a list of things to remove and do it all in one shot? Why not use grep: egrep -v "PhraseA|PhraseB|PhraseC" > final.txt Bill --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
