--- dougb at dougbarton.us wrote: From: Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> On 06/12/2013 05:13 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > "cat /var/log/router.log | egrep -v 'term1|term2|term3' | less" Prototypical "useless use of cat" :) ----------------------------------------------------- What would you use and what's wrong with concatenation of a file with nothing? 1+0=1 ;) scott