How do I use grep?

[Christian Aguilar Varga]

Hi!
I want to get text lines from a file. This file conteints lines with several text line types.

How do I filter these lines using grep with logic "OR"?

Thank You!

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

use

grep LTVCL text.log

and if you do not want NTVCL
then use
grep LTVCL text.log | grep -v NTVCL

-USA..

[Pete Randall]

Use sort:

sort text.log



Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# grep -e pattern1 -e pattern2 filename

As many '-e pattern' repetions as you want can be specified.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Michael Steele_2]

grep -e LTVCL -e NTVCL | sort -n > /tmp/file

-or-

cat /tmp/file | sort -n > /tmp/file2

[harry d brown jr]

From your output, it looks like you really want to sort:

sort -t"-" -k1.1,1.5 -k2n -k3n -k4n -k5n fileNAMEhere


live free or die
harry

[John Meissner]

man grep

grep data1

egrep 'data1|data2'

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

You said *any* command:

# perl -le'$,="-";print unpack"A5s4",$_ for sort map{pack"A5s4",split/-/}<>' infile

Well, it's easy once you understand it :) and it's still a one-liner (which probably can be even shorter)

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn