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Filter lines starting with a specific keyword
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Filter lines starting with a specific keyword
grep -Ev '^(X|Y|Z)' /path/to/your/file
-E is to use extended regular expressions.
^ matches the beginning of the line.
(X|Y|Z) means lines start with X or Y or Z.
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