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What operating system are you using?

SunOS 5.11

What system provides your mail account(s)?

As far as I can tell it's mailx

Is the spam that has been redirected into your three spam...

Hmm. No help around here, I guess.

I get spam thrown into these two folders, as well as mail/spam.

I think my spamassasin is throwing them at the latter. Who is throwing them at the former? Why are they getting thrown in different...

Yes, that is, of course, very true about different kinds of text files. But it is fascinating that a <newline> character, which isn't displayed in even vi, determines whether grep thinks of the file...

"The behavior of grep is undefined when the input files you give it are not text files."

So, um, here's a dumb question -- how is it that a file produced by Mac "TextEdit" is not a "text file"?...

P.S.

od -bc exclude
0000000 062 060 066 012 063 060 064 012 064 060 063 012 064 060 064 012
2 0 6 \n 3 0 4 \n 4 0 3 \n 4 0 4 \n
0000020 064 060 065 012...

My apologies for not using code tags before.

But hey, grep -Fvf exclude log.txt > out worked *perfectly* for anything I put in my "exclude" file. That's the solution. Bingo.

But why? What does...

Thanks. Let me be more specific. My log file "log.txt" is pretty big. About 30 MB. My command line is

grep -vf exclude log.txt > out

If my "exclude" file is a text file with

206
304
403...

OK, this really has me bolluxed.

I'm using Mac 10.6.8, and I'm trying to do simple analysis of my Apache logs in Unix. Let's call that text file "log".

Now I want to remove from that file all...