On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:43, Chris Devers wrote: > Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular > form of the word doesn't show up
I find that kind of hard to believe... What unix are you running? Anyway, here's my submission (I initially envisioned some xargs/grep stuff at the end but the sort/uniq is certainly much faster): grep 'ss$' /usr/share/dict/words | sed -e s/ss// | \ cat - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | uniq -c | grep ' 2' That returned 10 words from Fedora Core 2's version of words, and the answer was readily apparent. I also noticed bras->brass, a (weak) example of the converse transformation. :) -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
