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Inverted grep results

Published on July 29, 2005
By Pete Freitag

If you want to your grep results to only show lines not matching the pattern use the -v switch. You can also use --invert-match

fgrep -v 127.0.0.1 file.log

The above prints lines from file.log that do not contain 127.0.0.1


Inverted grep results was first published on July 29, 2005.

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