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tail -v a file while excluding a list of words

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Mar 15, 202625623 views

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I'd like to tail a log file that's continuously being written to but would like to exclude various entries that are 'common' so I only see errors, etc. as they are thrown. I can pipe to grep -v "pattern" but would ideally like to use a file containing entries to skip. Any ideas?

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You can use like you said. But instead of use Remember to include the backtics. So your command would look like:

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