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pattern matcher for doing simon shuker's code-cracker in the nz herald. ".txt" uses data from https://github.com/dolph/dictionary/blob/master/unix-words
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patt
#!/bin/sh
[ "$1" ] || { echo "pattern?"; exit; }
patt="$1"
grep -E "^$patt$" *.txt | awk -F: '{print $2}'| sort -u | paste - - - - -
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