Yes, I was thinking in the same line... if done in perl using hash seem to be better than building giant regex.
Heh...didn't know about -F option.. will check it out
thanks
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Neither did I, but I scanned through man grep to make sure I was doing things right. I did have a vague recollection there was an option to search for strings rather than regex ... it helps if you know to search for something.
As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.