Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:14:03 +0530 From: ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <86bp98dpj0.fsf@chateau.d.if> 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") References: <3.0.1.32.20100811180022.00ee4250@sage-american.com>
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--=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jack L Stone 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. #v+ % egrep 'word1|word2|word3|...|wordn' filename.txt #v- 'word1|word2|word3|...|wordn' is the regular expression, so if you can minimize it better for you :). HTH =2D-=20 Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ =E2=80=9CThere is nothing new to be discovered in physics now; All that remains is more and more precise measurement.=E2=80=9D (Lord Kelvin, 1900) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJMY96HAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwVQUP/2f1RC/bYVMUfAiamBc/3pYJ BJwkRzEIsdpL41mGcrCuR1GXPfKqnK7DbpC7VdC4kZVuRZfAJ34CiH/7+B4j/Qv5 h4oAtvHcUebXy+nqBZ6re3aI1WjfCUGYl+Fk6dC/r/0pcAwo7KRcAz9nyye4a3Nd HOGC6+5cyHSxCPK+1Qo794rFg81h9jSjxLVsbgY2MrpOn2gAmBHxwd7G1I/taYs0 n8fnnfML2P3PAMwHEp6BXEwTT+vpn8g1M8skWMTqj9/D9yxOXw3bT9Gjs2EyRqrm Mb0EMMa3tUajR8IXxzw6yuSZ3VxesFFZgIVq+GwTtBBgshUk2chnUX+UVZH0Fzuc KYbIbZNyd9BMAkxeDXFib/orfEu0iVOfCe0HSSvDM3LQIKIKqriXHQGK9AEjZ1zl wgyRHwa23M2wiMqofe00gYtZjIRifmNViz/XpXkvcu23y2NB7xlIYZbGDF4q3ZtY y0FNheriVEUeP58bpPYKyC+FaY41TlgquFsNJIZK2vNKYXuPR9gA6llZYo3ONOvM HJeXWCJHDlh6gtPp0cca/VKUpBehNxK3O+SMLj9XTSS69dT+6L62cqYcdLxB4Lt0 6smtjbP3L8/lXpTIDbhfqfINpoy6PeLL0DgZnluGDmP2IFqOobToUQnRrrAbG0Ey 7/vhs/E5QZ366sReKA9g =pxPq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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