From: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar Date: 2007-08-17T04:50:54+09:00 Subject: file grep I have a file that has a list of filenames- filenames.txt I have another file that has list of all the files in the system with their complete filepaths - allfilespath.txt I want to print the fullpaths of all the files listed in filenames.txt In shell scripting I would have done somethign like this for name in filenames.txt do grep $name allfilespath.txt if [ $? == 1 ] then echo $output_from_grep fi done How do I do this in ruby ? If possible (again if possible) explain what the code does. If not I will google and update what each line does. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.