On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:50 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > >> grep -E 'deep|html' test > > > > Wouldn't that match against *either* word, rather than require both to > > be present? > > Yes, but that's what I thought the OP was looking for. > > To look for both words in the same line, I'd use: > > $ grep deep test | grep html And to require both words to be present anywhere in the file you could use: grep -q deep test && grep -q html test && echo "found both" Matt Matt Davey If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be mcdavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx research. If we knew how it was going to come out, it wouldn't be an experiment.
