in reply to Help with script to search all files for certain words.

Most greps have an option to give a filename containing a list of strings to search for, so use that. Since you're using words rather than patterns, use the fixed strings option as well:

find blah blah blah | xargs grep -i --fixed-strings --file=words.dat

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Re^2: Help with script to search all files for certain words.
by afoken (Chancellor) on Jan 11, 2011 at 09:23 UTC
    find blah blah blah | xargs grep -i --fixed-strings --file=words.dat

    Change that to ...

    find blah blah blah -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i --fixed-strings --file=
+words.dat

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    ... and problems with "funny" filenames are gone.

    Alexander

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