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From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Is it "grep'
Message-ID: <1156@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 6 Jan 91 00:25:39 GMT
References: <5638@discg1>
Organization: Now looking for work..., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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In article <5638@discg1> ieca006@discg1 (william crosby) writes:
|I hope someone can help me. A friend of mine told me there are three words
|in the english language that end in the letters 'gry'. I immediately came
|up with angry and hungry. I've seen on the net where people use a command
|and a wild card to find out different groups of words. I tried using grep 
|but I don't understand how to do it. It would be greatly appreciated if
|someone could tell me exactly how to do it.

I used ``egrep "^.*gry$" /usr/dict/words'' but only came up with angry
and hungry.  /usr/dict/words must not contain the third.

	--jtc

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