[Nottingham] Stripping lines out of a text file

[Martin Garton]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:17 +0000, Martin Garton wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:04 +0000, JJSH wrote:
> 
> > "Size", "EDM", "Material", "Date", "Client".
> > 
> > Can anyone think of a way I can strip out all of the lines that don't 
> > begin with one of the above, other than tediously going through it 
> > manually (some of the files are huge)? The remaining data needs to be 
> > kept in sequence.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> egrep "^((Size)|(EDM)|(Material)|(Date)|(Client))" file.txt

or even:

egrep "^(Size|EDM|Material|Date|Client)" file.txt

which is what I meant to say.  But I see that Cam beat me to it anyway..

-- 
Martin.

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