graf:

I guess depending on your areas of expertise and skill, it could be any kind of problem. It seems like the type of problem particularly well suited to Perl, and I think it would be a nice exercise. Eventually I would like to get to the point where I would automatically write up a Perl script in response to this problem (and then, eventually....have it work on the first go!). Since I found this site I am definitely thinking in more Perl-like mode.

However I WILL admit that I did the preliminary filtering of the pattern file with sed, one step at a time (both because I wanted to check my progress after each step and am more familiar with one-off command line usage of sed, though I would like to learn how to use Perl like that).

Finally, wouldn't one want to use File::Find for the finding part?

Thanks for the responses!

Edit: I just saw your comment that you "prefer using Unix find"--my apologies.

In reply to Re^2: Parsing a list of files to see if any contain any one of a list of comma delimited strings by OfficeLinebacker
in thread Parsing a list of files to see if any contain any one of a list of comma delimited strings by OfficeLinebacker

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