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From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Is it "grep'
Summary: answer is unclear
Message-ID: <11785@alice.att.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 05:17:13 GMT
References: <5638@discg1>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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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.
~ 
~ Thanks, Bill


	yes, it is grep. The command is

grep 'gry$' dictionary

I ran this on our dictionaries and I believe the correct answer is two
(angry and hungry) and not three. If you want to be exotic, the Second
Edition of the Mirriam-Webster New Internation Dictionaty (unabridged)
yields the following words:

web2:aggry
web2:ahungry
web2:angry
web2:anhungry
web2:hungry
web2:unangry