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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Grep expressions homework, need assistance Post 302514107 by alindner on Thursday 14th of April 2011 09:21:34 PM
Old 04-14-2011
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Originally Posted by Perderabo
What kind of data is in /usr/dict/1-1000 and /usr/dict/numbers? I would expect them to contain pretty much the same data. They must be different sinc3e you got question 1 but not question 2. Smilie
Sorry since i have a few questions im working on i didnt update all the data.
/usr/dict/numbers looks like this
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
....up to one thousand

So i could try to form a grep to get the words of even numbers like two, four, six, eight...but run into an issue with fourteen, or things like ten and twenty.

so i wanted to try and grep based on line number but not sure that will work
 

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british-english(5)						   Users' Manual						british-english(5)

NAME
british-english - a list of English words DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/british-english is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line. FILES
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/. /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen /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, and/or to change the currently- chosen word list. 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. The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori- ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>. Debian 16 June 2003 british-english(5)
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