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Old 09-11-2008
kaustav_pal kaustav_pal is offline
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well put all the matching patterns in single file say pattern.dat

then you can use following

Quote:
cat pattern.dat
sample.gz
sample1.gz

grep -f pattern.dat source_file
you can manipulate contents of pattern.dat and get matchings accordingly