excluding two or more groups of strings from printing

marcpascual · #1 (**permalink**) 03-20-2009

sample text:

001 the quick brown fox jumps 987 over a lazy dog
002 the quick brown fox jumps 999 over a lazy dog
003 the quick brown cow jumps 888 over a lazy dog
004 the quick brown fox jumps 777 over a lazy dog
005 the quick brown fox jumps 666 over a lazy cat

i want to do something like:

cat text | egrep -v ""brown fox"|"lazy dog"" (ofcourse this doesn't work)
which should yield:

003 the quick brown cow jumps 888 over a lazy dog
005 the quick brown fox jumps 666 over a lazy cat

TIA,
Marc

vidyadhar85 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-20-2009

try this.......

Code:

awk '/brown fox/||/lazy dog/{print}' filename

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