I wrote a bash search script that creates a directory named after the search word and greps all the files and copies the ones that match to the new directory and generates a printed output of the file. To make a very long story short I have about 150 more searches to perform and each one takes between 10 and 15 mins searching over 12,000 files. This is the first bash script I have evr written and I am sure it could be done better but it works for me for now. What I really need is a quick and dirty way for the script to pull the search words from a list so that I can go home tonight :) The script is as follows: ====================================================== # /bin/bash mkdir ../success/"$1" echo "" > ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" echo "###################################################" > ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" echo "###################################################" >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" echo "Files that contain the search string $1" >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" echo "###################################################" >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" echo "###################################################" >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" echo "" >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump1* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump2* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump3* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump4* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump5* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump6* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump7* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump8* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" dump9* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" plow* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" grep -l "$1" excel* >> ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" cp $(cat ../success/"$1"/"$1_success") ../success/"$1" lpr -PBrother ../success/"$1"/"$1_success" ======================================================== As you can see it is envoved by ./scriptname searchword I would like to do it by ./scriptname searchlist Could some one point me to a quick way to do this so I can get the heck out of here? A million TIA Steve
