Grepping a list of words

[Ashish SHUKLA]

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
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