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From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:48:58 +0400
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20100811180022.00ee4250@sage-american.com> (Jack
	L. Stone's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:22 -0500")
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Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words
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"Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> writes:

> 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.

Perhaps, `-e' option?

  $ printf 'foo\nbar\n' | fgrep -e foo -e bar
  foo
  bar