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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting many strings against 5million lines Post 96397 by reborg on Thursday 19th of January 2006 08:04:59 PM
Old 01-19-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by r0sc0
for line in `cat strings.txt`; do grep $line 5mill.txt;done
Code:
while read line; do
    grep "$line" 5mill.txt
done < strings.txt

Code:
grep -f strings.txt 5mill.txt

or (depending on OS)

fgrep strings.txt 5mill.txt

 

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