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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Comparing lines within a word list Post 302954392 by drl on Monday 7th of September 2015 10:46:40 AM
Old 09-07-2015
Hi.

Possibly of some help:
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NAME
       agrep - search a file for a string or regular expression, with
       approximate matching capabilities

DESCRIPTION
       agrep searches the input filenames (standard input is the default, but
       see a warning under LIMITATIONS) for records containing strings which
       either exactly or approximately match a pattern.  A record is by
       default a line, but it can be defined differently using the -d option
       (see below).  Normally, each record found is copied to the standard
       output.  Approximate matching allows finding records that contain the
       pattern with several errors including substitutions, insertions, and
       deletions.  For example, Massechusets matches Massachusetts with two
       errors (one substitution and one insertion).  Running agrep -2
       Massechusets foo outputs all lines in foo containing any string with at
       most 2 errors from Massechusets.

-- man agrep, q.v.

The agrep code is in repositories for CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, etc.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ding

DING(1) 							 Debian GNU/Linux							   DING(1)

NAME

       ding - dictionary lookup program for Unix

SYNOPSIS

       ding [options] [phrase]

DESCRIPTION

       ding is a dictionary lookup program for X Windows/Unix. It comes with a German-English dictionary with about 270,000 entries.

       It is based on Tk version >= 8.3 and uses the agrep(1) or egrep(1) tools for searching.

       In addition to this ding can also search using ispell(1) and dict(1).

       It  has	many  configuration  options,  such as search preferences, interface language (English or German), colors. It has history and help
       functions and comes with useful key and mouse bindings for quick and easy lookups.

       If you enter some word or phrase as command line argument, ding will start up with a translation of this word/phrase.

OPTIONS

       -x, --selection
	      Start searching for selected word (X selection).

       -m, --mini
	      Start with minimal size (search form only).

       -r, --remote
	      Start search in an already running program.

       -R, --remote-new
	      Start search in an already running program or start a new program.

       --noconf
	      Do not save preferences

       -D #, --debug #
	      Start with debug output, # = number (1..15).

USAGE

       It's very simple: Start ding (via KDE menu "Tools" or via command line), type in search word, press ENTER, read results. Search further	by
       double-clicking	a word, or select a word in another window and drop it by clicking with mouse button 2 over the "ding window". For further
       information consult the program help by pressing F1.

SEE ALSO

       agrep(1), egrep(1), ispell(1), ding(1).
       http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
       /usr/share/doc/ding/html/index.html

AUTHOR

       ding was written by Frank Richter <frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>.

       This manual page was written by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Debian Project							    March 2011								   DING(1)
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