Re: simple grep command twister

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:39:47AM +, john smith wrote: > Hi! > mind twister break? > how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? > > grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? grep can't do it, since wc -L reports that the longest word contains

Re: simple grep command twister

john smith scripsit: >Hi! > mind twister break? >how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? > >grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? You simply can't. period. palindrome (not palandrome) is a context-free concept, that is to say you can't express

simple grep command twister

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