grep each word of a file

[sumas]

Hello all,

I am trying to grep each word of a file.
I have a file with 1.txt,
rob
tom
john

I want to grep tom file.txt, grep rob file.txt,

I am struck at... I could do this awk '{print $1}' 1.txt | grep ??(not sure here)

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

-f FILE, --file=FILE
Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line. The empty file con-
tains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing.

grep -f 1.txt file.txt

Tested with GNU [tt]grep[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/