brian foster fmmutvinternetie date mon 5 nov 2007 103330 0000 oleary patrick given large logfile list 40 names job find every entry log matches name list names thinking simply something like cat xyzlog grep name outputtxt lazy bugger feel like 40 times ive trawled web cant come way giving grep list names single file suggestions help would gratefully appreciated grep f file see gnu grep1 man page file contains patterns res one per line may may also want f option search strings rather res andor option case insensitive searching dont need use cat1 unless want win useless use cat award cheers blf currently looking job brian foster experienced 25 yrs software engineer montpellier france unix linux embedded designfortest stop eo exxonmobile softwarehardware codesign debugging httpwwwstopessocom kernels drivers filesystems tc résumé cv contact details idl automated testing process tc httpwwwblfutvinternetie thu 07 aug 2008 161018 0100 ilug grep