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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
