Searching multiple items

kainfs · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Hi,
I'm a complete newbie so bear with me.

I have a directory (and sub-dirs) full of .doc, .xls files.

What I’m trying to do is do a single search within the files (i.e. within each .doc etc) for occurrences of multiple items e.g. apples, pears, grapes, bananas.

Basically I’d provide a list of things to search, hit return and it'll go away and search (and print) each occurrence of, for example, apples, pears etc.

Hope this is enough info.
I tried this using the find command in ms-dos but couldn't get my head around it.
any help would be gratefully received

vbe · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

look at the grep man pages...

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