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Old 08-31-2008
Lakris Lakris is offline
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useless use of cat?
I guess I misinterpreted the OP, now here is my supersilly superuseless use of cat and pipe...

Code:
for x in *.txt;do cat $x|tr "\n" " "|egrep '(use.*take|take.*use)'&>/dev/null; [ $? == 1 ] && echo $x;done
but I think it gets the job done?

/Lakris