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Linux - Find occurrences of X OR Y in a fileGiven a list of names in mates.txt grep bob mates.txt
would find all strings that match bob grep bob mates.txt | grep ro
would find all lines that have bob & ro, so would get robert, but NOT just bob on its own grep -E '(bob|bill)' mates.txt
(grep -E = Interpret pattern as an extended regular expression) Sometimes you might have a list of search terms formed by another function. If you have a file of terms called search.txt, which contains Bob and Bill on new lines .grep -f search.txt mates.txt
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