Grep –v stand for inverse. With grep –v you can extract lines that correspond to the opposite of your search criteria.
Let suppose a file name “name” that contain the name of many people , here is what it contain:
Dany Moore
Steve Hawkins
Roger Hipkiss
Loy Hinton
Mandy Moore
Candy Diaz
Fernando Diaz
If you do :
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cat name | grep –v moore
you will get :
Steve Hawkins
Roger Hipkiss
Loy Hinton
Candy Diaz
Fernando Diaz
Or you can do :
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grep –v moore name
And still get the same result!
