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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep exact match without period or other special characters Post 302969332 by MadeInGermany on Monday 21st of March 2016 04:29:58 PM
Old 03-21-2016
The following is an attempt:
Code:
egrep '(^|[[:blank:]]+)(abc|def)([[:blank:]]+|$)' infile

But this also prints lines with two or more matching words.
Regarding the awk solution, I like the following better
Code:
awk '
NR==FNR {a[$1]; next;}
{L=0; for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) if ($i in a) L++;} L==1
' words_file infile

 

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ECACCESS-EVENT-GRANT(1p)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  ECACCESS-EVENT-GRANT(1p)

NAME

       ecaccess-event-grant - Grant usage of an ECaccess Event

SYNOPSIS

       ecaccess-event-grant -version|-help|-manual

       ecaccess-event-grant [-debug] [-subscribe] [-notify] event-id user-list

DESCRIPTION

       Allow managing the Event permissions for a list of user(s).

       The permissions can be either subscribe, notify, both or none. In order to remove permissions to an Event for a list of users use this
       command with no -subscribe and -notify options.

ARGUMENTS

       event-id
	       The identifier of the Event to grant.

       user-list
	       The user(s) to give/remove the permissions. Multiple users should be separated by a column (e.g. abc,def).

OPTIONS

       -subscribe
	       The user(s) specified in the user-list will be allowed to subscribe to the event-id (e.g. with the -eventIds option of the
	       ecaccess-job-submit command).

       -notify The user(s) specified in the user-list will be allowed to send notifications to the event-id (e.g. with the ecaccess-event-send
	       command).

       -version
	       Display version number and exits.

       -help   Print a brief help message and exits.

       -manual Prints the manual page and exits.

       -debug  Display the SOAP messages exchanged.

EXAMPLES

       ecaccess-event-grant -subscribe 167 abc,def,jhi

       Allow the users abc, def and jhi to subscribe to this Event.

       ecaccess-event-grant 167 jkl

       Remove all rights to the Event for the user jkl.

SEE ALSO

       ecaccess-event-clear, ecaccess-event-delete, ecaccess-event-send, ecaccess-event-list, ecaccess-event-create and ecaccess.

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