At 2:52 PM +0100 4/26/06, Matt Davey wrote: >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" Or searching a directory (/not/ what the OP asked for!): grep -rlZ deep dir/ | xargs -0 grep -l html ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>