How can I find entries in a group of scripts that contain text from a list?

Question

I have a list of search terms in termlist.txt, and a directory /dir/scripts which has a lot of scripts inside.

How would I easily determine if any file in /dir/scripts contains any term in the list from terms.txt?

This is on a unix server.

Answer 1

grep -Fxrlf termlist.txt /dir/scripts

where grep options are

• -f file use patterns from file
• -F patterns are fixed strings, not regular expressions
• -x the pattern must match the whole line (you may not want this)
• -l output only the filenames containing the match
• -r recursive