grep: grep for two substrings?

eur0dad · 08-17-2006, 03:46 PM

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!