Grepping a list of words

[Thomas Dickey]

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
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