How to find words from one file in another file?

Question

In one text file, I have 150 words. I have another text file, which has about 100,000 lines.

How can I check for each of the words belonging to the first file wh

Answer 1

You can use grep -f:

grep -Ff "first-file" "second-file"

OR else to match full words:

grep -w -Ff "first-file" "second-file"

UPDATE: As per the comments:

awk 'FNR==NR{a[$1]; next} ($1 in a){delete a[$1]; print $1}' file1 file2

Answer 2

Use grep like this:

grep -f firstfile secondfile

SECOND OPTION

Thank you to Ed Morton for pointing out that the words in the file "reserved" are treated as patterns. If that is an issue - it may or may not be - the OP can maybe use something like this which doesn't use patterns:

File "reserved"

cat
dog
fox

and file "text"

The cat jumped over the lazy
fox but didn't land on the
moon at all.
However it did land on the dog!!!

Awk script is like this:

awk 'BEGIN{i=0}FNR==NR{res[i++]=$1;next}{for(j=0;j<i;j++)if(index($0,res[j]))print $0}' reserved text

with output:

The cat jumped over the lazy
fox but didn't land on the
However it did land on the dog!!!

THIRD OPTION

Alternatively, it can be done quite simply, but more slowly in bash:

while read r; do grep $r secondfile; done < firstfile