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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Proofreading documents with awk
Message-ID: <6612@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 16 Dec 89 03:40:52 GMT
References: <25@meme.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <25@meme.stanford.edu> heit@psych.Stanford.EDU (Evan Heit) writes:
: I am looking for someone who has written a program in awk that will
: will allow me to proofread my papers by by looking for word repetitions.

How about filtering through

    tr -cs "A-Za-z" "\012" | uniq -d

(Sys V'ers will have to make that [A-Z][a-z]).

I sincerely doubt that any awk (or perl) solution will do as well.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov