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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Piping GREP Post 302281971 by mojoman on Friday 30th of January 2009 12:40:20 AM
Old 01-30-2009
That works

Okay that works no problem

But supposing Bob Smith was in a file. I need to grep for Bob in a file and then grep again to make sure it contains Smith. The two are not side by side so I have to do two greps....

Should I be using fgrep? If so how?
 

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