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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
