I would tend to use grep -w to match a word but of course egrep doesn't 
have that flag (at least not in Solaris 9).


On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:57:24 -0600, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU> 
wrote:

>In regard to: [Networker] mminfo query question, Len Philpot said (at...:
>
>> I know I can do things like
>>        # mminfo -ar 'ssid,volume,client,name' -q 'volume=001234'
>>
>> But is there a way to specify all <whatever> except a certain one or a
>> list of ones? eg. --
>>        # mminfo -ar 'ssid,volume,client,name' -q
>> 'volume!=001234,volume!=001235,ssid!=1234567890'
>
>When I've needed to do stuff like this in the past, I've found it easiest
>to just postprocess the output with "grep -v".  The trick is that you have
>to be careful that grep only matches the fields you're interested in.
>In other words, if "001234" occurs as part of a substring of the ssid,
>you don't want that getting thrown out.  It can help to arrange your
>query so that the fields you need to examine are at the beginning or end
>of each output line.
>
>It can also be helpful to specify the field separator in the output from
>mminfo, as that can sometimes make it easier to construct the regex for
>grep.
>
>With that in mind, something like
>
>       mminfo -xc@ -ar 'ssid,client,name,volume' |
>       egrep -v '(^1234567890@|@00123[45]$)'
>
>should accomplish roughly what you're after.
>
>Tim
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