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Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file



Jim Popovitch wrote on 28/05/2022 21:40:
Not exactly Debian specific, but hoping that someone here can help.

I have a file of regex patterns and I use grep like so:

    ~$ grep -f patterns.txt /var/log/syslog

What I'd like to get is a listing of all lines, specifically the line
numbers of the regexps in patterns.txt, that match entries in
/var/log/syslog.   Is there a way to do this?

-Jim P.

How about this:

$ grep -of patterns.txt /var/log/syslog.1 | grep -n -f - patterns.txt

Regards,
Jörg.



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