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Old 08-31-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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With egrep:

search for $var1 OR $var2:


Code:
egrep "[$var1]|[$var2]" file

search for $var1 AND $var2:


Code:
egrep "$var1.*$var2|$var2.*$var1" file

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