Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:38:55 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> To: ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20100812073855.00ec5e98@sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <86bp98dpj0.fsf@chateau.d.if> References: <3.0.1.32.20100811180022.00ee4250@sage-american.com> <3.0.1.32.20100811180022.00ee4250@sage-american.com>
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At 05:14 PM 8.12.2010 +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >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 >-- >Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 Thanks for the replies. This suggestion won't do the job as the list of words is very long, maybe 50-60. This is why I asked how to place them all in a file. One reply dealt with using a file with egrep. I'll try that. Appreciate the help and any others in case the one doesn't work. All the best, Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american
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