how to grep multiply strings

[Jun Lu]

In article <531 at ctycal.UUCP> pat at ctycal.UUCP (Patrick Woo) writes:
>I am trying to display line that doesn't contain string1 or string2 or ...
>stringn.
>
>What I did was
>
>grep -v string1 | grep -v string2 | .... | grep -v stringn
>
>Just wondering if there is an easier way other than doing all this piping.
>Thanks in advance.
>

How about 
	egrep -v 'string1|string1|...|stringn' 
?

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