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Old 10-06-2008
Error Grep all words with "con" in them from a dictionary?
Is it possible to grep all words with the string "con" "Con" "CON" etc. etc. from a dictionary?

for instance "magic command 'con' dictionary" will spit out words such as Confluence, contended, inconceivable etc etc.

I really need this! Thank you!
# 2  
Old 10-06-2008
it will give the full line where that word exist
Code:
grep -i 'con' inputfile

# 3  
Old 10-06-2008

Code:
dic=/usr/share/dict/words
grep -i con "$dic"

See also Chris F.A. Johnson's Word Finder and Anagram Solver.
# 4  
Old 10-06-2008
please define "inputfile"
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
grep -i 'con' inputfile

Where is the input file that I am looking for? a dictionary most likely

where is such a file on an ubuntu machine? I can look and install stuff, but i'd prefer to do this operation on ubuntu...
# 5  
Old 10-06-2008
try search in this path
cd /usr/share/dict
there you find a file called words use that as infile
# 6  
Old 10-06-2008
what packages are responsible for this file? or which packages supply additional dictionaries?

please help me debug, i believe this is the fault of a nonexistant words file on my machine...

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output of ls -al in /usr/share/dict
Code:
guptaxpn@greentea:/usr/share/dict$ ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   32 2008-09-26 19:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 4096 2008-10-06 17:41 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  199 2008-04-21 04:04 README.select-wordlist
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   30 2008-09-26 19:32 words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words
guptaxpn@greentea:/usr/share/dict$

shell script
Code:
guptaxpn@greentea:~$ more dict.sh 
#! /bin/bash

dic=/usr/share/dict/words
grep -i con "$dic"
guptaxpn@greentea:~$

output of shell script
Code:
guptaxpn@greentea:~$ ./dict.sh
grep: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory
guptaxpn@greentea:~$

# 7  
Old 10-06-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by guptaxpn
what packages are responsible for this file? or which packages supply additional dictionaries?

Use your favourite package manager to search for it or download the singlewords file from my WordFinder site mentioned above.
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