[UFO Chicago] ls access to a dictionary?

[Jesse Becker]

--- Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
> #ls ?ni?
> Unix?
> #ls *ni?
> unix
> linux
> 
> etc etc
> 
> Anyone know if such a thing exists?

Umm.... "egrep"?

> egrep -iw '.ni.' /usr/share/dict/words
Enid
knit
snip
unit
UNIX
Unix

I won't paste the output for '.*ni.', since it's 155 lines
long.

So, the solution is to learn basic regexes, and write an
shell function for egrep:

function xword { 
  egrep -iw $1 /usr/share/dict/words
}




Jesse Becker
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