finding words which only end in ???

[Guest_imported]

if I had a list of words (one word per line) and wanted to find only the words which end in say 'ing' how would I go about it?

grep ing /usr/dict/words | awk ????????????

possible?

 

[Guest_imported]

sorry figure it out with sed...

grep ing /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/[ing\t]*$/ing/' | more

 

[Guest_imported]

heh... wait... that doesn't work *bonk*

 

[rbobbitt]

um, how about just:

grep 'ing$' /usr/dict/words

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[flogrr]

In the awk method it is:

cat /usr/dict/words | awk '/ing$/ {print}'

Use piping out of awk or redirect into a file as req'd.

Jesse


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[rbobbitt]

Or just let awk do the whole job:

awk '/ing$/ {print}' /usr/dict/words




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