Shell Programming and Scripting

First post by a newbie. Pls help....

#!/bin/ksh
OBJECT_LIST=/export/home/russellc/infile99.lst
OUTPUT_FILE=/export/home/russellc/outfile99.lst
cd /export/home/russellc/
for mystuff_obj in `cat $OBJECT_LIST`
do
find . -name "scanfile99.txt" | xargs grep -in $mystuff_obj >> $OUTPUT_FILE
done


Contents of /export/home/russellc/infile99.lst
--------------------------------------------
ABCD
EFGH
IJKL
MNOP

Contents of /export/home/russellc/scanfile99.txt
----------------------------------------------
I have ABCD in my mind
She thinks I think WXYZ
Everybody thinks I think EFGH
Nobody thinks I think MNOP


Contents of /export/home/russellc/outfile99.lst
---------------------------------------------
1:I have ABCD in my mind
3:Everybody thinks I think EFGH
4:Nobody thinks I think MNOP

In short, the script result (outfile99.lst) shows the matched lines from scanfile99.txt.

How can I make the script output the matched lines from infile99.lst instead?
Ex.,
ABCD
EFGH
MNOP


Thanks in advance!

With grep:

Code:

grep -n -f "$OBJECT_LIST" scanfile99.txt

Regards

Code:

NR==FNR {a[$0]; next;}
{for (arri in a)
{
        if(match($0,arri))
        {
                print $0
                next
        }
}
}

Hi,

Check the following script,

for i in `cat file1`
do
sed -n ' '/${i}/'p' file2
done

for reading the contents of a file, using a while "fed from below" is way better (faster and less resources)

Code:

while read line
do
   echo "do somethings here"
done < /apth/to/my/file

while is the loop reserved word.
read is the program/built in read function
and line is the variable that holds the line (you can use anything there, is juts a var)

Code:

while read teletubie
do
   echo "$teletubie is a horrible actor"
done < /apth/to/niptuk/cast

also, when im doing some scripting, i always have this open (i even carry a tar.gz of those with me so i can erad them offline)
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