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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:20:10 -0300
From:      Rodrigo Gonzalez <rjgonzale@estrads.com.ar>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Grepping a list of words
Message-ID:  <20100812082010.361ff51d@rjgonzale-laptop>
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, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:22 -0500
"Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> 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.
>=20

Use egrep

egrep "(word1|word2)" <file>

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