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grep for double words in text
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grep_for_double_words.sh
# I use this to find double words in a text file
# for example, "Give it to the kid." gets typoed as "Give it the the kid."
# this regex will find "the the" and help me track down those double word typos
egrep '(\b\w+)\s\1\b' *.txt --color -n
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