[lug] finding text lines in a single file

[Wagner, Carl]

That should do it.

Like I said, about 10 seconds.

Thanks!
Carl.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us
[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]On Behalf Of Jeff Schroeder
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:07 PM
To: Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [lug] finding text lines in a single file


Carl asked:

> Basically what I want is
>   open EntryFile
>   while not EndOfFile(EntryFile)
>   {
>    EntryLine = read EntryFile
>    grep EntryLine LogFile
>   }

How about this:

for line in `cat EntryFile`; do grep $line LogFile; done

To make it a little more user-friendly, add an echo so you know what 
you're looking at:

for line in `cat EntryFile`; do
  echo "Searching for $line"
  grep $line LogFile
done

Note that if EntryFile has spaces in the lines this won't work; $line 
will be set to each *word* rather than each *line*.

HTH,
Jeff
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