dictionary s/w w/ wildcard

[root]

Any of the grep (*NIX) family of programs will do this for you; grep,
egrep or fgrep.  Also, so will sed and awk.  All use the common wild
cards in the same context, so if one dosn't do what you wish - another
one will.
good luck-
Scotty
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