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eur0dad

08-17-2006 03:46 PM

grep: grep for two substrings?

I'm trying to get grep to return true if it finds string xyz or string abc. I know you can do it with individual chars, but can this be accomplished with substrings? If so, how?

I.e.:

if cat /file | grep "xyz or abc"; then
echo "string contains substring xyz or substring abc"
fi

KenJackson

08-17-2006 03:53 PM

Try:

Code:

if cat file | grep 'xyz\|abc'; then

    echo "string contains substring xyz or substring abc"

fi

eur0dad

08-17-2006 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KenJackson

Try:

Code:

if cat file | grep 'xyz\|abc'; then

    echo "string contains substring xyz or substring abc"

fi

Sweet. Thanks!

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