Solution –
grep -E ‘string1|string2|string3’ filename.txt
or
grep ‘string1\|string2\|string3’ filename.txt
Below are the content of filename.txt –
Linux
Centos
Fedora
Redhat
Suppose we have to check if the file contains Centos and Redhat. For that we can run below commands –
grep -E 'Centos|Redhat' filename.txt
Or
grep 'Centos|Redhat' filename.txt