Date: 12 Aug 2010 15:35:35 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <20100812153535.61549.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20100812073855.00ec5e98@sage-american.com>
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>>% egrep 'word1|word2|word3|...|wordn' filename.txt >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. Gee, 50 words, that's about a 300 character pattern, that's not a problem for any shell or version of grep I know. But reading the words from a file is equivalent and as you note most likely easier to do. R's, John
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