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unix command to extract words from a file (Mac/Linux)
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| tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < filename.txt |
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This command takes the complement of [A-Za-z] which is all non-alphabetic characters and converts them into newlines '\n' (-c parameter). It also squeezes all successive newlines into a single newline (-s parameter).