help with grep

Is there an easy way to consolidate the 2 grep parts of the following bash command into a single grep command?:

cat MyFile | grep 'Blah Blah' | grep xyz$

I'd like to not use the pipe re-direct, but instead tell grep, in one command, to grab any lines in 'MyFile' that meet both of these criteria:

1) contain the string 'Blah Blah' (with the space)

AND

2) end with the string 'xyz.'

I know you can use the '|' (pipe) command to separate 'or' statements in grep, but is there an 'and' statement separator?

Thanks!

WE can not having an option on grep to use AND there.

But your way of try as,

cat MyFile | grep 'Blah Blah' | grep xyz$ is not efficient.

cat <filename> | grep ... will take more time to do operation.

We can simply this as,

grep -E 'blah blah' filename | grep -E 'xyz$'

or

grep -E 'blah blah' < filename | grep -E 'xyz$'

We can use awk for this too as,

awk ' /blah blah/ { print $0 }' <inputfile | awk ' /xyz$/ { print $0 }'

HTH.

Regards
Muthukumar.

Unfortunately grep only takes on pattern for its options so you would need to use the pipe no matter what. What's wrong with pipe? Something against it?

Regards,

jlk

nope - just thought maybe there was a cleaner way to do it. Thanks for the reply.

why not use the rigth tool?
instead of the s....d
cat MyFile | grep 'Blah Blah' | grep xyz$
try
sed -n '/.*Blah Blah.*xyz$/p' MyFile