Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:40:48 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <20100812104048.GA46142@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20100811180022.00ee4250@sage-american.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20100811180022.00ee4250@sage-american.com>
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:00:22PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> Kindly appreciate help with how to grep (or similar) a list of words to
> determine if any of them are in a file rather than grepping one word at a
> time.
Something like this should do the trick:
egrep "(word1|word2|word3)" file
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