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loop over regexes to exclude them from a file
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grep.sh
## make a copy of the original file that we can modify
cp original_data outfile
## loop over a file of regexs, applying each to our output
while read rx; do
grep -v $rx outfile > outfile.tmp
mv outfile.tmp outfile
done < regex_file
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