discovered this neat trick that using grep, you could easily look up
words in the dictionary under unix. so if you want to find words that
have some letters, like 's.*m.*b' it could show you 'samba' among many
other choices.

that's how samba got its name:
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grep -i 's.*m.*b' /usr/dict/words

And the response was:

salmonberry samba sawtimber scramble

Thus, the name "Samba" was born.

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cool!

i tried the trick. it says you've got to grep -i /usr/dict/words

but i have not the dictionary there. question, where is the dictionary
under rh8, such that this technique works.

??
LL


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