[SWLUG] grep question

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ho ho! just give me a week or two to follow this:-)

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:05 pm, you wrote:
> My 2p worth ...
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
>
>
> 	barf() { stat=$1; shift; echo "$*" >&2; exit $stat; }
>
> 	pause=
>

> 		fi
> 	done < "$patternfile"
----snip----
> which doesn't involve all the rereading the pattern file every time etc.,
> and works for multiple files to be searched and stops if grep dies
> for strange reasons (bogus patterns etc.)
>
> For extra brownie points,
> indent the grep output to make it more readable and/or
> make the error messages more visible and/or
> count the matches!!

>

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