Basic Grep Question

[taharka]

How do,

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
> 
> I'd like to run that from one grep command.

#egrep 'cat|grey' /tmp/file works for me.

> Many Thanks
> Dan

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