On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:00:22PM -0500, Jack L. Stone 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.
put the list in a file, and use grep -f better, use the \< and \> markers on the file's contents and use egrep. (grep -w option is likely to be buggy when available). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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