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Show matching words in Dictionary with a wildcard
Authored by: bkemper on Jul 12, '07 08:58:45PM

Pretty good tip. It seems to require single quotes instead of double though. Like this:

egrep '^.oat$' /usr/share/dict/words

or for all words ending in "oat" (including the word "oat"):

egrep '^.*oat$' /usr/share/dict/words



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