On 13Mar2007 15:42, Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Could someone please tell me how I can grep for two or more different | words in one command instead of piping them through. | | e.g I don't want to do | | cat /tmp/file | grep -v cat | grep -v grey | | I'd like to run that from one grep command. Various people have mentioned egrep's '(foo|bar)' notation. Good for OR. For AND I start reaching for sed, since you can write more logic. I have a script here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/grepall that constructs a sed command to do AND, and runs it, so (for the inverse of your example): grepall hairy grey cat < /tmp/file Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ My computer always does exactly what I tell it to do but sometimes I have trouble finding out what it was that I told it to do. - Dick Wexelblat <rlw@xxxxxxx>
