how to grep multiply strings

[Patrick Woo]

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.
> 
> grep -v string1 | grep -v string2 | .... | grep -v stringn
> Just wondering if there is an easier way other than doing all this piping.

Thanks for all the replies, here is the summary

egrep -v 'string1|string2| ... | stringN'
sed -e '/string1/d' -e 'string2/d' ... -e '/stringN/d'
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