GREP: how to search for a value, but at the same time exclude some matches

Question

I need to simplify this command:

grep 'SEARCHTERM' server.log | grep -v 'PHHIABFFH' | grep -v 'Stats'

It should find all lines, including SEARCHTERM, but exclude if one of the lines SEARCHTERMincludes PHHIABFFHor Stats.

Answer 1

This will work:

grep 'SEARCHTERM' server.log | grep -Ev 'PHHIABFFH|Stats'

Answer 2

Why do you want to "simplify" this channel? Un * x command line tools are designed to be chained this way.

Edit

Some answers suggest using the functions of certain versions of grep. I like it, but it is very possible that such specific functions are not available in the grep version used by the OP.

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Answer 3

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awk '$0 !~ /PHHIABFFH|Stats/ && /SEARCHTERM/' server.log

Answer 4

while read -r line
do
   case "$line" in
    *"Stats"*|*"PHHIABFFH"*) continue;;
    *"SEARCHTERM"* ) echo "$line";;
   esac
done < "file"

Answer 5

:

grep 'SEARCHTERM' server.log | grep -v -e 'PHHIABFFH' -e 'Stats'