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Old 03-13-2014
Thank you, I got it now. I really appreciate that help!
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Old 03-13-2014
If you have something to match and something to exclude, you can achieve this in two connected commands:-
Code:
grep -E "a" file | grep -Evc "h"

The v flag is a negation, so the above will first find all records that match the condition (i.e. contain a) then count all records that do not match the second condition h



I hope that this helps,
Robin
 
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