Hi,

Using grep, I'm searching for words in a file filled with an entire dictionary. When the script is run, the user passes a series of letters as arguments which help determine which words they are looking for.

I was wondering if I could search for them using $*.

I'm currently using this command statement, and then using a for loop to find only the words with the character arguments sent by the user.

grep '[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z]' dictionary > results

Could I use something like this instead?
Ex. grep '[$*][$*][$*][$*][$*][$*]'

which if say the arguments were a, b and c... would it translate to:

ex. grep '[abc][abc][abc][abc][abc][abc]' dictionary > results ???

thanks
Jason