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shell prog for double words

I need a shell programing script for "double words"

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This is a shell script that is used to find the ten character words in the machine local
dictionary (/usr/dict/words) that are made up with two valid english words that are
five character long. This means that each of the two five letter words is found in the
dictionary, and when the two are concatenated, the resulting word is a valid English word.
(examples: black board blackboard, grape fruit grapefruit, water melon watermelon). Use
the time command to see how fast (or slow) your script is, and write your finding in the
file doublewords.txt and save it in your text subdirectory. You do not need to include all
the words you found, a short or partial list will be just fine.


Shell: Bourne Shell

Thank you

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 07-20-2011 at 05:43 PM.. Reason: Closed - homework
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WORDS(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							  WORDS(5)

NAME
irish - a list of Irish words DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/irish is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line. FILES
/etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to a /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. 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
Alastair McKibstry <mckinstry@computer.org> Kevin Scannell Linux 29 Sept 1998 WORDS(5)