tags:

views:

71

answers:

1
+1  Q: 

Is there a Unix command to echo out an entire dictionary?

I'm writing a program that uses regular expressions to make comparisons against the entire dictionary on the UNIX shell.

Is there a way that I can echo some sort of predefined dictionary and then pipe it to grep? I was thinking I could use the backend of some programs spell-checker?

Or do I just need to echo a file of words? If so, where can I find an english dictionary, with one word per line?

+5  A: 

Did you try cat /usr/share/dict/words?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_%28Unix%29

MiffTheFox  2009-08-27 21:39:26

related questions

Obscuring network proxy password in plain text files on Linux/UNIX-likes
Why doesn't **find** find anything?
Getting stack traces on Unix systems, automatically
Differences between unix and windows files
How do you do a case insensitive search using a pattern modifier using less ?
Using Visual Studio to develop for C++ for Unix
How do I generate ASCII codes 2 and 3 in a Bash command line?
What's in your .procmailrc
Allow user to set up an SSH tunnel, but nothing else
What is PHP Safe Mode GID?
How to avoid redefining VERSION, PACKAGE, etc.
How can I encode xml files to xfdl (base64-gzip)?
Faster way to find duplicates conditioned by time
Date arithmetic in Unix shell scripts
Using Xming X Window Server over a VPN
Windows Equivalent of 'nice'
How do I configure and communicate with a serial port?
Choosing a static code analysis tool
What should a longtime Windows user know when starting to use Linux?
How do I use (n)curses in Ruby?
Process size on UNIX
Getting root permissions on a file inside of vi?
GTK implementation of MessageBox
Is gettimeofday() guaranteed to be of microsecond resolution?
Fastest way to get value of pi