[ILUG-Social] Linux/Unix Dictionary

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:57:02PM -0400, Ronan Herron wrote:
> would anyone know where I could download an english dictionary. It wouldn't 
> even need to provide definitions, a simple word list would do. The reason I'm 
> looking for this; being very much a newbie to the world of Linux I am trying 
> to get up to speed in the use of grep, sed, and regular expressions. And what 
> better way I thought than to use a wordlist/dictionary and cheat at 
> crosswords!! 

almost all unicies come with /usr/dict/words.  some linux distributions
come with a util called look.  it essentially does a grep -i ^thing
/usr/dict/words (assuming you're looking for thing).

kevin

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