[Nottingham] Stripping lines out of a text file

[JJSH]

Many thanks for the replies, chaps ~ gives me something to work with.


James Dobson wrote:
> cat foo | grep -e LALA -e MILK > data
>
> where 'foo' is the file your searching and 
> -e is the pattern (just keep adding -e for each
> pattern)
>
> and 'data' is the output put into a file
>
> enjoy,
>
> JD
>
> --- JJSH <stellafan at jjsh.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've got a bunch of flat files here from an acient
>> database that I need 
>> to tidy up so that I can import them into MySQL. The
>> first thing I need 
>> to do is get rid of all the junk data that I don't
>> need. All of the 
>> needed data is contained on lines that begin with
>> one of the following;
>>
>> "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.
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> John
>>
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