DevTips bash command line Grep

Grep for multiple strings in one command

Grep can be used to look for more than one pattern in only one run.

The basic usage of grep is for looking for one string in a file, or multiple files, like:


grep '<id>' my_file.xml

but we can also do an OR in the search string:


grep '<id>\|<title>' my_file.xml

Then you will get the lines containing both <id> and <title>.

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