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[I-R-BABOON]

My company has recently received around 5million (yes 5 million) e-mail address'
My boss wants me to sort these into catagories as such
aol_mail
compuserve_mail
hotmail_mail
msn_mail
earthlink_mail
yahoo_mail
and
other_mail

So far i have taken all the aol extentions and put them into aol_mail and the same for the other 5 mailboxes but i need to put the other email address' like netzero.com, optonline.com, etc into the other_mail file with out including any aol, compuserve, hotmail, msn, earthlink, and yahoo e-mail address'
Does anyone know how to accomplish this using the grep or other command?

 

[IUP99snake]

Sorry man.. Ive got Linux, and I can barely figure out how to get it started up.. HAHA

-Homer

 

[norcal_cobra]

Assuming you have these emails listed in a file called and that they are each on a line by themselves:
cat emailaddresses.txt | grep -v @aol.com | grep -v @compuserve.com | grep -v hotmail.com | grep -v ..... > otheremailaddresses.txt

This is what is referred to as a filter. The output will be in a file called otheremailaddresses.txt Hope this helps.

-norcal_cobra

 

[Sinister Angel]

heh, sheit, peeps here know more then me.

 

[derryck]

Subscribe to UNIX HINTS... there's some really useful tips, like how to filter using grep.

 

[sohowcome]

Originally posted by Sinister Angel
heh, sheit, peeps here know more then me.

LOL yeah your only 17 how much can you know

 

[I-R-BABOON]

norcal_cobra wins yey thanks alot