Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:57:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Grepping a list of words Message-ID: <201008141957.o7EJvYAa017901@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 12 05:36:27 2010 > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:22 -0500 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > From: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> > Subject: Grepping a list of words > > 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. > > Thanks for any suggestions... > 1) egrep "(word1|word2|word3|word4|....|wordN)" file 2) grep -F -f wordlist_file sourcefile The proverbial advice about "the fine manpage" is relevant. :) `
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