Need advice performing a search

William Park parkw at better.net
Tue Apr 25 16:50:50 EDT 2000


On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:58:38PM +0000, Kia Arab wrote:
> 
> I am trying to search a file for two strings. If *either* string is
> found, I need the line in which the string was found to be returned  (or
> somehow extract the line). It should keep searching and keep returning
> the lines where it finds either string, until the end of file is
> reached.
> 
> Any suggestions?

On Unix, 'grep' is what you want.  But, I guess you can read line by
line, and test for the 2 strings.

--William




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