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Old 01-19-2019
Grep: Retrieve two strings from one file to find them anywhere on line in another file
I am having trouble matching *two* strings from one file anywhere in a line of a second file, and could use some help getting this figured out. My preference would be to use grep for this because I would like to take advantage of its -A option. The latter is due to the fact that I would like both of the two strings from File1 to be found anywhere in the same line of File2, and then return the trailing n lines. A small sample from my data with desired output is as follows:

File 1:
Code:
PS001,001 HLK
PS002,004 MWQ
PS004,002 RXM
PS004,006 DBX
PS004,006 SBR

File2
Code:
 PS001,001 [VWB-WHJ <Su>] [L-GBR> <PC>]
 Lexeme     VWB HJ==     # L GBR       #
 PhraseType  2(2.1,7) 5(5,2.3)
 PhraseLab  502[0]         521[0]
 ClauseType NmCl

 PS001,001 [D-<Re>] [B->WRX> D-<WL> <Co>] [L> <Ng>] [HLK <Pr>]
 Lexeme     D      # B >WRX D <WL        # L>      # HLK      #
 PhraseType  6(6) 5(5,2.3,5,2.3) 11(11) 1(1:2)
 PhraseLab  519[0]   504[0]                510[0]    501[0]
 ClauseType xQt0

 PS001,001 [W-<Cj>] [B-R<JN> D-XVJ> <Co>] [L> <Ng>] [QM <Pr>]
 Lexeme     W      # B R<JN D XVJ        # L>      # QWM     #
 PhraseType  6(6) 5(5,2.3,5,2.3) 11(11) 1(1:2)
 PhraseLab  509[0]   504[0]                510[0]    501[0]
 ClauseType WxQ0

Desired Output:
Code:
 PS001,001 [D-<Re>] [B->WRX> D-<WL> <Co>] [L> <Ng>] [HLK <Pr>]
 Lexeme     D      # B >WRX D <WL        # L>      # HLK      #
 PhraseType  6(6) 5(5,2.3,5,2.3) 11(11) 1(1:2)
 PhraseLab  519[0]   504[0]                510[0]    501[0]
 ClauseType xQt0

I was hoping there was a way that I could use something like the following, which works great if there was only one string in File 1, rather than two.
Code:
grep -f -A4 File1 File2

I have tried various awk solutions, put this makes printing the match along with the following lines overly complicated (so it seems to me). Thanks in advance for any help you'd be willing to give.
Last edited by jvoot; 01-19-2019 at 03:22 AM.. Reason: Fixed Title
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Old 01-19-2019
Hi, try:
Code:
grep -A4 -f <(sed 's/  */.*/' File1) File2

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Old 01-19-2019
Such an elegant solution Scrutinizer. I had no idea grep would recognize metacharacters as a part of stdin. Thank you so very much.
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