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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers searching by string length Post 89446 by GADO on Sunday 13th of November 2005 04:57:24 AM
Old 11-13-2005
Question Searching a file for words by length

Hi,

I'm rather new to Unix and I'm trying to write a simple script to search through a dictionary for words based on the letters a user would pass as arguments to the script.
Now I have the searching part done. However, the one thig that still eludes me is that I want to only keep the words that are only 6 characters in length, and separately, 6 characters in length or less.

So far I've been using grep to get the words but it retrieves words of all lengths. How can I do this?

Thanks to all who reply!
Jason
 

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CWDREG(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CWDREG(1)

NAME
cwdreg - To register characters/words into the binary format dictionary. SYNOPSIS
cwdreg [-D server ] -n envname -d dicno < textdic OR cwdreg [-D server ] -n envname -L filename < textdic DEFAULT PATH
/usr/local/bin/cWnn4/cwdreg DESCRIPTION
This function allows user to register characters/words into the specified binary dictionary, with either dictionary number dicno or dictio- nary filename filename specified. server is the machine name of the server. If this is not specified, the default cserver indicated by the environment variable CSERVER will be taken. "-n envname " must be specified. envname is the environment name. You may execute "cwnnstat -E" to see the current environment name. Either "-d dicno " or "-L filename " must be specified. dicno is the dictionary number. filename is the filename of the dictionary. "-L" is used for when the dictionary is from the local machine. "<" means to pipe the textdic as an input to "cwdreg" command. textdic is the text file which user enters the characters/words to be registered. The format of this text file must be the same as that in the system text format dictionary. That is, -------------------------------------------------- | Pinyin Word Cixing Frequency | | : : : : | -------------------------------------------------- Refer to cWnn manual for details on dictionary. By using "cwdreg", all the characters/words in textdic will be registered into the specified binary dictionary permanently. NOTE
1. The parts in [ ] are options. They may be omitted. 13 May 1992 CWDREG(1)
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