linux - grep two strings from a file and write into a txt

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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Could you please help me how to grep two strings (or the whole lines) from one file and write them on the same line in output file?

grep -e "string1 string2" inputfile > output.txt doesn't work

for one string it works:

grep -e "string1" inputfile > output.txt

thx!

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Change your grep command like below,

grep -o 'string1\|string2' file | paste - - > out.txt

This writes string1 string2 in a single line on out.txt