print lines with specific words

Question

Say I have two files (file1.txt & file2.txt).

file1.txt: (contains only list of words, one per line)

Car
Ricky

file2.txt: (contains lines (phrases) using words from file1.txt and more)

he has a Car
there is no food
I have a book
road is straight
Ricky is a good student

The output should be:

he has a Car
Ricky is a good student

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '16 at 17:57

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If your grep supports the -w option:

grep -wFf file1.txt file2.txt

answered Aug 16 '16 at 17:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '16 at 17:35

If I'm understanding the question correctly, it sounds like you want to grab lines from file2.txt that contain words from file1.txt

This can easily be achieved by using grep and a for loop.

Basically, you can cat file1.txt and then feed that into a grep command.

for i in $(cat file1.txt); do grep $i file2.txt; done

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