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> > I'm looking for a program that will give me a list of all of the English
> > words that can be spelled using the letters a - g.
On any Unix:
grep -v '[h-z][H-Z]' /usr/dict/words
grep is a text pattern search.
-v means print all lines not containing the pattern
the pattern '[h-z][H-Z]' matches any line with one or more
characters between h and z; these are not printed
/usr/dict/words is an English dictionary
It never ceases to amaze me that people actually use computer systems that
lack basic tools like 'grep'. These were already standard on Unix when I
learned it in the early 80s.
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