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Wondering if anyone can help me, I'm very rusty with bash and seem to hit a bit of an impasse.
I'm storing a list of strings in a file and would like to read the file and pipe each line returned to grep which in turn searches a directory for files containing the string.
Initial attempt:
cat filename | grep -lr *
However this is not returning any output.
Can anyone give me some directions on the best approach?
1Are you sure about that peth? Pretty sure it finishes after the last line of
filename
. – Pricey – 2011-06-02T09:21:07.417Ah apologies, never saw the sneaky edit. Never used the pipe up there before either.. – Pricey – 2011-06-02T13:01:39.020