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02-20-2005

vino

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Got it.

Solution is
if echo "$word" | grep −q "$letter_sequence"

It was there in the Advanced Bash scripting guide. It can be found at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf

Thanks Perderabo
Thanks zazzybob.

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