Search for two words in a File

[Matt Davey]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:50 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> grep -E 'deep|html' test
> > 
> > Wouldn't that match against *either* word, rather than require both to
> > be present?
> 
> Yes, but that's what I thought the OP was looking for.
> 
> To look for both words in the same line, I'd use:
> 
> $ grep deep test | grep html

And to require both words to be present anywhere in the file you could
use:

grep -q deep test && grep -q html test && echo "found both"

Matt

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