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Old 06-06-2013
Return lines except those with starting with #, A and *
OS: RHEL 5.8

I have a text file like below

Code:
$ cat mylist.txt
# Multiple entries starting June 1, 2013
#
#
#AGENT
TOUK1TOY1
TOUK1GTF1
ROUK1MET1
TOUK1GTF
TOUK2TOY1
TOUK2GTF
EOUK2GTF1
WOUK1RTO
TOUK1RTO1
GOUK2RTO
KOUK2RTO1
TOUK3RTO
TOUK3RTO1
# *
# *
AGENT
# *
MOUK3TOY
*
TOUK1MET
YOUK1TOY
JOUK2TOY

I want only those lines to be returned which don't start with the characters # , A, or *.

So, my expected output will be
Code:
TOUK1TOY1
TOUK1GTF1
ROUK1MET1
TOUK1GTF
TOUK2TOY1
TOUK2GTF
EOUK2GTF1
WOUK1RTO
TOUK1RTO1
GOUK2RTO
KOUK2RTO1
TOUK3RTO
TOUK3RTO1
MOUK3TOY
TOUK1MET
YOUK1TOY
JOUK2TOY

Any idea how I can do this?
# 2  
Old 06-06-2013
try

Code:
grep -Ev "^#|^A|^\*" file

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# 3  
Old 06-06-2013
Code:
awk '/^[^*#]/'
or
awk '!/^[*#]/'

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