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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding my lost file by searching for words in it Post 302541469 by statichazard on Sunday 24th of July 2011 08:52:23 PM
Old 07-24-2011
That looks good, but I was wondering if I could do it this way. Say those words are located in a file, and for example we will call it words.txt. Can I just plug in that file, instead of listing all of the words? Like so...

grep -f (wc -l words.txt) -R1 *.txt

??? I really don't know if the line count part would actually work, and if it would check all of the words or just the first occurrence (I could probably use sed for that too), but it just seems easier than writing out a whole script.

Basically, I am wondering if I can replace the "pattern" with an actual file.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gaelic

GAELIC(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							 GAELIC(5)

NAME

       gaelic - a list of Scots Gaelic words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/gaelic is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words  is  a  symbolic	link  to  a  /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software	should	refer  to  the	system	word  list.   See  select-default-
       wordlist(8) for more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.	Such lists should be coded using  the  ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The  system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>

Linux								   20 July 2002 							 GAELIC(5)
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