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A command line crossword solving assistant
Authored by: kholburn on Sat, Mar 1 2008 at 2:05PM PST

I'm not sure what the echo and backticks are for. Why not simply use:


grep -w $text /usr/share/dict/words

If you really want the result in one line try something like:


grep -w $text /usr/share/dict/words | tr -d '\n'