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notintopic – restricts a list of items

Description

Only outputs the items that DO NOT belong to the topics given as arguments.
Warning: This function can only be used with Shell piping. See examples below.

Syntax

<searchitem output> | notintopic
or
<intopic output> | notintopic

Examples of use

searchitem "Content LIKE \"%sigma%\"" | notintopic "proba" | showitem

OR

searchitem "Content LIKE \"%sigma%\"" | intopic "proba" | notintopic "phd" "algebra" | showitem

Arguments

Exclusively a list of ItemIDs from stdin, such as the ones outputted from the searchitem and intopic functions.

Outputs/actions

Returns a list of item id’s to stdout.