[Nottingham] Help... How to grep four words in a file appearing in any permutation?

[Richard Parsons]

grep -l alpha * | xargs grep -l beta | xargs grep -l charlie | xargs grep
-l delta

Does that do it?

"-l" prints the filenames rather than the matching lines, which then
becomes the input for xargs in the next line.

You'd have to expand the regexes slightly if the surrounding whitespace was
important to you.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Just need the file names for files that have those four words.
>
> There should be a surrounding 'white space' or end/start of line.
>
> And the words can appear in any order in the file...
>
>
> The words may well be on two adjacent lines, hence why the chain of
> greps isn't the full answer...
>
> ?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
> Richard Parsons wrote:
> > The four words have to be next to each other separated by spaces?
> >
> > Do you want the grep to flag the matching file, or is the specific line
> > important?
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk
> > <mailto:martin at ml1.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Folks,
> >
> >     One of those clever one-liners please?
> >
> >
> >     How to grep for four words in a file that can appear in any
> permutation?
> >
> >     ?
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Martin
> >
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