[SunHELP] Grep Help

[Lance Sequeira]

Hey Shain,

I have a practical solution, that does not answer your
question from an academic perspective. But you could
try the following:

Put all the patterns that you want to search for in a
file, say patterns.text; each pattern on a separate
line.
Write a shell script, say SGrep, with the following
following content:

#!/bin/ksh
while read Pattern
do
   grep "$Pattern" ${2}
done < ${1}

Run the script as follows:

> SGrep patterns.text yourfiletosearchin

--Lance.



--- Shain Miley <smiley at tvdata.com> wrote:
> In this instance I do not need to go into
> subdirectories, there is only
> one file that I will be looking at.  I am looking
> for a way to search
> one file for many many things.  I thought that
> pattern list was what
> I was looking for but now I am unsure.
> 
> Shain
> 
> 
> "Fogg, James" wrote:
> 
> > I highly recommend rgrep (recursive grep), esp.
> since it can search
> > subdirectories.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shain Miley [mailto:smiley at tvdata.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:52 PM
> > > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > > Subject: [SunHELP] Grep Help
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I need to search for about 15 things (list of ip
> addresses
> > > and hostnames) in a file useing grep.  Do I have
> to use grep
> > > 15 different times or can I give
> > > multiple search options to one grep command?  I
> tried 'grep
> > > 'a b c d e' file' but I get an error:   grep: RE
> error 41: No
> > > remembered search string.  Any
> > > ideas?  i have tried using examples I found on
> the web but it
> > > looks like that does an exact search or
> something other than
> > > what I need.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > Shain
> > >
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