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crossword solver using command line

In tips & tricks on 11 March 2010 tagged cheat, crossword, puzzle with no comments

if you like to solve crossword puzzle to kill your time but sometimes you are stuck with what word you should put in

here's a quick example on how to do that in your terminal

example clue the entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip)

and we have crossword like this

_,_,_,r,_,p,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,r

now using common word list table we can easily solve this by

grep -e ^...r.p.......r$ /usr/share/dict/words

note: empty space was replaced by dot (.) notation

note: make sure you have the word list package installed

sudo apt-get install wamerican

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