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I have 2 files.

FileA having:

addAgencyBtn
agenciesLink
agencyEmailAddressTextField
agencyEmailTypeDropdown
agencyGblFiltTextField

FileB having: (Master file having all contents - Base file used for searching patterns from FileA)

Given variable agenciesLink is id:side-menu-button-7010
Given variable addAgencyBtn is xpath://a[@es-bdd-id="ps-agency-list-page-es
Given variable agencyNameTextField is name:agencyName
Given variable agencyIdTextField is name:agencyId
Given variable agencyTypeDropDown is name:agencyType
Given variable taxTypDropDown is name:taxType
Given variable emailAddressTextField is name:emailAddress

I would like to pick the patterns from File A, and if File B has 'pattern' matched, I would like to copy those lines into File C.

I tried:

grep -wf FileA FileB > FileC

but I see FileC having entries from 'pattern substring' as well, which I don't want.

For example:

Given variable **addAgencyBtn** is xpath://a[@es-bdd-id="ps-agency-list-page-es-heading-href-add-agency"]
Given variable **agenciesLink** is id:side-menu-button-7010
Given variable **agenciesLink** is xpath://md-content/div/div/nav/div/ul/li[8]/div/ul/li[1]/a
Given variable **agencyEmailAddressTextField** is xpath://input[@es-bdd-id="ps-agency-edit-page-es-panel-body-2-es-contacts-form-2-es-panel-body-es-email-edit-form-es-field-edit-input-emailAddress"]
Given variable **agencyEmailTypeDropdown** is xpath://select[@es-bdd-id="ps-agency-edit-page-es-panel-body-2-es-contacts-form-2-es-panel-body-es-email-edit-form-es-field-edit-2-select-emailType"]
Given variable agencyGblFiltTextField is xpath://input[@es-bdd-id="ps-agency-list-page-2-ps-agency-list-es-list-panel-es-panel-header-es-panel-actions-es-global-filter"]
Given variable agencyIdTextField is name:agencyId
Given variable agencyNameTextField is name:agencyName
Given variable **applications_firstNameTextField** is xpath: // **having substring match**
Given variable **applications_lastNameTextField** is xpath://input // **having substring match**
Given variable **businessOwnerFirstName** is xpath:// // **having substring match**
Given variable businessOwnerLastName is xpath://input // having substring match
Given variable businessOwnLastNameTextField is xpath://input[@es-bdd
Given variable capAddPlayerFirstNameTextField is xpath://input
Given variable capPlayerFirstNameTxtFld is xpath://input[@es-bdd-id='ps-player-

Can you please help me to find out what is going wrong here?

Regular expressions!

It's not apparent to me what your environment or use case is, however it sounds like you need to use regular expressions in file1.txt. Do you have full control over patterns in file1.txt? If so, change each line to be a regular expressions to define exactly what you want.

For example:
If you only want the full word to be matched do the following:

File1:

saddAgencyBtns
sagenciesLinks
sagencyEmailAddressTextFields
sagencyEmailTypeDropdowns
sagencyGblFiltTextFields

This will match any of those words that begin with a space and end with a space.

Cheat.
You can also cheat and literally add the spaces in file1.txt

 addAgencyBtn
 agenciesLink
 agencyEmailAddressTextField
 agencyEmailTypeDropdown
 agencyGblFiltTextField 

It doesn't look like it but there's a single space surrounding each word. This can get pretty complicated depending on if the data you are working with is inconsistent... or very dirty.