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# 1  
Old 01-09-2011
[grep] seeking more than one word
Hello everybody,

How can I do seek several words with grep command ?
I didn't find how to do that in the man for I'm French.
Then I tried
Code:
man bash | grep -in control flow

But flow is interpreted as an input file
Then I tried
Code:
man bash | grep -in "control" -a "flow"

but doesn't seem to work

What the right method for my issue ?

thanks a lot
# 2  
Old 01-09-2011
Code:
grep -e 'first word or phrase'  -e 'next'  -e 'last'  filename

Surround the pattern you are looking for with ' ', that lets you have spaces and tabs in the pattern. It also allows you to use a feature called regular expressions. Which is far beyond what we can show you here. grep -e 'pattern1' -e 'pattern2'
is the general format you want. It means find any or all of the patterns.
Last edited by Scott; 01-09-2011 at 10:17 AM..
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# 3  
Old 01-09-2011
Thanks jim,

problem solved, but let's assume i'm using a variable in the pattern which would be

Code:
grep -e 'file$1' filename

$1 is not interpreted and remains $1 in the pattern right ?
# 4  
Old 01-09-2011
If you want $1 to be "interpreted", put your expression in double quotes:
Code:
grep -e "file$1" filename

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# 5  
Old 01-09-2011
ok nice it works

thank you so much
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