Thank you
My 91 yo mother in care, but criptic capable, will be most grateful for
your assistance
Regards
Tony Wilson
On 15/02/2005, at 10:40 PM, Peder Kristensen wrote:
Hi All,
For all crossword enthusiast, or cheaters, try this little gem that I
picked
up from the latest issue of Inside Mac Radio. ... On your system, 10.2
and
greater I think, you have a Webster dictionary that you access via the
the
Terminal app. The Webster dictionary, web2, is located in /usr/share/dict
and by using the Unix grep command you can search for a word. The grep
command structure is
grep w ³the word you looking for² /path
The "word" is made up known characters and blanks, blanks are entered
as .
So here is an example:
grep -w "ap.l." /usr/share/dict/web2
This grep search will find words that matches a patter of "ap.l." in the
Webster Dictionary, you should get an answer of: apple, apply, aptly
Have fun with your little word or crossword helper.
Cheers,
Peder
