words (Unix)

words is a standard file on all Unix and Unix-like operating system, and is simply a newline delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell checking programs.With Unix's text processing capabilities, one can use the words file for many purposes. For example, using the grep tool, one can find all three letter words without any vowels, using regular expressions:egrep -i "^[^aeiou']{3}$" /usr/share/dict/words The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words, or /usr/share/words.
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