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Old 11-28-2018
ksh Script, Reading A File, Grepping A File Contents In Another File

So I'm stumped.
First... APOLOGIES... my work is offline in an office that has zero internet connectivity, as required by our client. If need be, I could print out my script attempts and retype them here. But on the off chance... here goes.

I have a text file (file_source) of terms, each line could have one, two or more words in this file.
I want to use each line from file_source as a key to grep for in a different file, (file_target)
I want to run a script that reads file_source, and uses the words from each line, to search/grep in file_target.
IE: grep "one first word" file_target, or just grep "second" file_target, etc.

In my first attempted script I have run a=`cat file_source`, then in a do loop, tried to grep "$a" file_another.
But instead of looking for all the words in one line, the routine I've created looks for each word individually from the line it's reading.
So instead of grep "a b c" file, I got grep a file, grep b file, grep c file.
Which is great... but sometimes, I really need to know that a, b and c occurred as a phrase.

I've tried multiple ideas, from cat, to read, to while to screaming. (OK, screaming is not a function, just a reaction.)
I can get a while read routine to read the whole line of file_source, but then trying to use the line to grep for in file_target fails wonderfully, saying something to the effect of source not found or what not.

I've run the script in the directory of the file I want to look at, calling out the file, and also run it pointing to the full path/file, to no avail.

If anyone has quick suggestions, outlines, ideas, or examples, WITHOUT burning up too much of your time, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you.

Bruce
 

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times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a variable assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name genera- tion are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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