Grepping a list of words

[Rodrigo Gonzalez]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:22 -0500
"Jack L. Stone" <jacks at sage-american.com> wrote:

> Kindly appreciate help with how to grep (or similar) a list of words
> to determine if any of them are in a file rather than grepping one
> word at a time.
> 

Use egrep

egrep "(word1|word2)" <file>
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