[SunHELP] Grep Help

[Shain Miley]

In this instance I do not need to go into subdirectories, there is only
one file that I will be looking at.  I am looking for a way to search
one file for many many things.  I thought that pattern list was what
I was looking for but now I am unsure.

Shain


"Fogg, James" wrote:

> I highly recommend rgrep (recursive grep), esp. since it can search
> subdirectories.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shain Miley [mailto:smiley at tvdata.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:52 PM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] Grep Help
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I need to search for about 15 things (list of ip addresses
> > and hostnames) in a file useing grep.  Do I have to use grep
> > 15 different times or can I give
> > multiple search options to one grep command?  I tried 'grep
> > 'a b c d e' file' but I get an error:   grep: RE error 41: No
> > remembered search string.  Any
> > ideas?  i have tried using examples I found on the web but it
> > looks like that does an exact search or something other than
> > what I need.  Thanks.
> >
> > Shain
> >
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