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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Search for words starting and ending with Post 303000410 by bakunin on Tuesday 11th of July 2017 08:54:32 PM
Old 07-11-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Nice approach. You might want to add a plus sign or a star to allow for multiple words. And, not sure if two or more adjacent minus signs are acceptable?
You are right, the missing asterisk was a typo, which i have corrected now. Thank you for spotting it.

You are right about adjacent hyphens maybe being not allowed, but that is a lack of information from the threads o/p. If he can better specify his needs i can construct better suited regexps. The point, though, was to show how a regexp can be constructed from a specification at all.

all the best
bakunin
 

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translate

TRANSLATE(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 TRANSLATE(1)

NAME

       translate - looks up for words in a dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       translate [options] words

DESCRIPTION

       translate looks up for words in a dictionary and translates them.  It can handle multiple dictionaries and charsets.  It comes with an eng-
       lish-german dictionary and is able to translate in both directions.

OPTIONS

       -n     non-interactive (don't prompt if no matches found)

       -i     invers lookup (from second to first language)

       -l     languages to translate between

       -v     display version and exit

       -w     searches only whole words

       -h display help

EXAMPLE

       translate -l en-de simplest

SEE ALSO

       xtranslate

FILES

       translate preferred language and is stored in /etc/translate.conf You can store your private configuration file in ~/.translate.  If  there
       are no options in the commandline it uses the default values de-en.

       It can also create a private dictionary in ~/.translate

AUTHOR

       Jochem  Huhmann <jochem@revier.com> wrote translate.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by oth-
       ers).

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