On Jun 12, 2013, at 9:01 PM, "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:

--- dougb@dougbarton.us wrote: From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>

On 06/12/2013 05:13 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

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"cat /var/log/router.log | egrep -v 'term1|term2|term3' | less"

Prototypical "useless use of cat" :) -----------------------------------------------------

What would you use and what's wrong with concatenation of a file with nothing? 1+0=1 ;)

Wow, a person gets corrected quickly here! ;-) And the answer is... "egrep -v 'term1|term2|term3' /var/log/router.log | less" All I can say is DOH! :-) scott