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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Extract words to new file Post 302454333 by eldeingles on Friday 17th of September 2010 04:07:37 PM
Old 09-17-2010
Extract words to new file
Hi there, Unix Gurus

Working with big listings of english sentences for my pupils, of the type:

1. If the boss's son had been [kidnapped], someone would have asked for money by now.
2. Look, I haven't [committed] a crime, so why can't you let me go?
....

I wondered how to extract the words between brackets in every sentence to a new file, so if my file contained 100 sentences I would end up with another file containing the 100 words taken out.
Could also the word taken out be replaced for a blank space, so i could get something like ...[ ]...?

Thanx on advance!
 

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galician-minimos

WORDS(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							  WORDS(5)

NAME

       galician-minimos - a list of Galician words, using the "minimos" standard

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/galician-minimos is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words  is  a  symbolic	link  to  a  /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software	should	refer  to  the	system	word  list.   See  select-default-
       wordlist(8) for more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.	Such lists should be coded using  the  ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The  system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

Linux								    14 Oct 2002 							  WORDS(5)
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