UniXman1234 wrote: > ./new1a < numbers.txt | grep -i -v '^a ' | grep -i -v '^the ' | grep -i -v > '^or ' | sort -f > > How would I go about merging all the greps into a scripe and putting all the > words that should be excluded into a data file
Many different ways. Look at the 'grep -f' option. Look at using sed. > so i would be able to execute it like > > ./new < numbers.txt | exclude | sort -f Here is one possibility. ./new < numbers.txt | grep -v -f exclude.txt | sort -f HTH, Bob
