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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting List all file names that contain two specific words. Post 302429107 by alister on Saturday 12th of June 2010 12:42:51 PM
Old 06-12-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by dr.house
How about ...

Code:
grep -rE '(A|B)' .

Quote:
Originally Posted by ygemici
Code:
grep -l -e "A" -e "B" *

or
Code:
grep -El "A|B" *

None of these proposals are correct; files containing either word but not both will match.

Regards,
Alister
 

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