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I think Hugo meant to say -v rather than -e to invert the match sense.
Just to add to what Hugo said - piping commands together is something I do all the time, especially with greps, when analysing logs. eg:
cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | grep -v my.ip.address | grep 'GET /some/path/script.cgi' | grep ' 500 ' > ~/my.output.log
... which would extract all the server error lines for script.cgi apart from those from my.ip.address and put them in a file in my home directory. Note that this could also be written as:
grep -v my.ip.address /var/log/httpd/access_log | grep 'GET /some/path/script.cgi' | grep ' 500 ' > ~/my.output.log
... to avoid the unnecessary cat.
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simon
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