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Old 02-28-2006
How to grep for two or more words in a line at the same time?

I want to search a heap of files but using an either OR or AND condition for two or more strings. How can I do this?

i.e. file1 has the following

file testfile primary

and file2 has this ...

file testfile2 secondary

If I use this ...

find . -type f -exec grep "testfile" {} /dev/null \;

I get BOTH files.

However, I want to use something that will give me the 1st file if I say something like ...

find . -type f -exec grep "file&&testfile" {} /dev/null \;

This actually did not work under C shell or Korn shell.

I also tried egrep "file&&testfile" and it too did not work.

In VMS (here we go! hehehe)... it was so easy ...

search *.src file, testfile /match=and

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 02-28-2006
Perhaps use an extended regular expression...
Code:
egrep '(file.*testfile|testfile.*file)' file*

# 3  
Old 03-01-2006
ooppp

oops sorry.... nm (edit)

Last edited by CL_KB; 03-02-2006 at 12:55 AM..
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