Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 09:35:25 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > E.g. I'm looking for journal entries which have, say, the words > > 'green', 'water' and 'deep' in them. Ideally the strings searched for > > could be Regular Expressions (though simple command line type wild > > cards would suffice). > > > > Is there a tool out there that can do this? > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/079 > > I believe you want the section entitled > > foo AND bar in the same file, not necessarily on the same line > > although it's hard to be sure, because your problem description is > somewhat unclear. (What is the format of a "journal entry"?)
You have understood what I wanted. You've also shown me that, probably, rolling my own bash script to do it is the way to go. The solutions in the bashFAQ thread do much as I was suggesting when I asked the question. Thanks. -- Chris Green ·
