On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:48, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > > Does anyone know how to construct a regular expression or in any > way get a single grep execution to do an AND instead of an OR > operation so that it looks for more that one string and matches a > line when ALL the items exist on that line, and are possibly in > RANDOM order? > > i.e. Find these lines > cat dog bird > bird dog cat > dog cat bird > etc. > Not a single grep expression but ..... grep "dog" <filename> | grep "cat" | grep "bird" Regards, Mike Klinke
