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Date: 2008apr21
OS: Linux

Q.  How can I find all English words that start with a certian prefix?

A.  If you are using RedHat/Fedora make sure you have the "words" package
installed:

	yum install words

Then you can do:

	grep ^Dw /usr/share/dict/words

To find all the English words that begin with "Dw".
(This was a "brain teaser" in my local newspaper today.)

Of course, you can use grep to do many other queries.

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