[R] OT UNIX grep question

[francoisromain at free.fr]

Hi,

You have to learn about regular expressions. Then you'll come up with something
like :

grep "^dog$" /usr/share/dict/words

Cheers,

Romain


Selon Erin Hodgess <hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu>:

> Dear R People:
>
> I want to use the "grep" command in UNIX/Linux to check
> some words from the dictionary.
>
> Let's say I use:
>
> grep dog /usr/share/dict/words
>
> and I get back
>
> bulldog
> dog
> dogged
>
> and so on.
>
> How could I just get back "dog" with the grep command please?
>
> Thanks,
> Sincerely
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
>
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