Use of grep with pattern matching file...

[arunrr]

Hello...

examples of the var TITLE...
TITLE="Stevens Institute of Technology"
TITLE="The Middlesex Academy of Science"
TITLE="University of Alabama"

Contents of file a.list...
Institute
Academy
College
School
University

Contents of file b.list...
N001 Institute
N002 Academy
N003 College
N004 School
N004 University

in the command...
echo $TITLE | grep -f a.list

can I use file 'b.list' instead of 'a.list' by some how directing it to match the 2nd field in the file for the pattern?

Thanks in advance...

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

Either remove the first field :

echo "$TITLE" | grep "$( cut -d ' ' -f 2- b.list )"

Or mark the first field as optional :

echo $TITLE | grep "$( sed 's/\w\+./\\(&\\)\\?/' b.list )"

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

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[arunrr]

Thanks again for your assistance...