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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Regex to identify unique words in a dictionary database Post 302992051 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 21st of February 2017 02:01:48 AM
Old 02-21-2017
The regular expression (RE) you need depends on what tool you're using and what you want the RE to do.

If you were using awk and wanted an ERE to select lines from your file that just have one headword, you might try:
Code:
awk '/^[^ =]*=/' file

As always, if you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.
 

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gnome-dictionary(1)						   User Commands					       gnome-dictionary(1)

NAME
gnome-dictionary - look up words in an online dictionary SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary [--database=database] [--list-sources] [--look-up=word] [--match=word] [--no-window] [--source=source] [--strategy=strat- egy] [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The Dictionary application enables you to look up an online dictionary for the definitions and correct spelling of words. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -D, --database=database Specify the database to use. -l, --list-sources Show available dictionary sources. --look-up=word Specify the word to look up. --match=word Specify the word to match. -n, --no-window Print definitions found on the console without launching the GUI. -s, --source=source Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings. -S, --strategy=strategy Specify the strategy to use. gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more infor- mation. OPERANDS
None. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Dictionary example% gnome-dictionary EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-dictionary Executable for Dictionary. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-dictionary | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Dictionary Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007. SunOS 5.11 09 Nov 2007 gnome-dictionary(1)
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