Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!wuarchive!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uoft02.utoledo.edu!eve!spotter From: spotter@eve.wright.edu (Sh'r'ldana) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Is it "grep' Message-ID: <1991Jan05.190311.28965@eve.wright.edu> Date: 6 Jan 91 00:03:27 GMT References: <5638@discg1> Organization: Wrong State University Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: eve.wright.edu In article <5638@discg1> ieca006@discg1 (william crosby) writes: >Hello, > >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. > Well, I used: grep gry /usr/dict/* and got: /usr/dict/words: gryphon /usr/dict/words: angry /usr/dict/words: hungry >Thanks, Bill Steve -- anagram@desire.wright.edu | "Tough times demand tough hearts, demand tough spotter@eve.wright.edu | thoughts, demand tough songs, | Demand!" -Rush WSU doesn't approve of anything I do, but that hasn't stopped me yet.