Basic Grep Question

[Rodolfo Alcazar]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 15:42 +0000, Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Could someone please tell me how I can grep for two or more different
> words in one command instead of piping them through.
> 
> e.g I don't want to do
> 
> cat /tmp/file | grep -v cat | grep -v grey

# grep -v "cat\|grey" /tmp/file

# grep -Ev "cat|grey" /tmp/file

> Many Thanks
Cheers!
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