Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:35:58 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <4C63DC9E.3060705@qeng-ho.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 08/12/10 00:00, 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.
fgrep, aka grep -F
A snippet from "man grep":
-F, --fixed-strings
Interpret PATTERN as a list of fixed strings, separated
by newlines, any of which is to be matched.
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