Is it "grep'

[Sh'r'ldana]

In article <5638 at discg1> ieca006 at discg1 (william crosby) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I hope someone can help me. A friend of mine told me there are three words
>in the english language that end in the letters 'gry'. I immediately came
>up with angry and hungry. I've seen on the net where people use a command
>and a wild card to find out different groups of words. I tried using grep 
>but I don't understand how to do it. It would be greatly appreciated if
>someone could tell me exactly how to do it.
>
Well, I used:
grep gry /usr/dict/*
and got:
/usr/dict/words: gryphon
/usr/dict/words: angry
/usr/dict/words: hungry

>Thanks, Bill
Steve


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