Ignore lists [was: Keeping the cruft out ...]

[David Relson]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:21:18 -0600
Bill McClain wrote:

> > Greg McCann wrote, in small part:
> 
> > > 1.  It does not do whole-word matching. 
> 
> grep has a -w word-match switch which works with -f and -v. Does that
> help?

Not enough :-(  "grep -w xyz" will match "xyz" and "abc-xyz-123". 
What's needed is the caret "^" to indicate the beginning of the line and
a space to indicate the end of the token, i.e.

	egrep "^xyz "