Re: reverse list

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com.invalid)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:21:44 +0100

17 Feb 2005 03:31:22 -0800: "mholb" <mholb@hotmail.com>: in sci.lang:

> I am interested in creating a reverse word list which is a list of
>words that are alphabetized by the last letter of the word. The result
>would make it possible to find all of the words in English that end in
>a particular suffix or letter. I know that the military published a
>reverse word order list some time ago, but that list is now out of
>publication. Is there a way to make such a list? Is the technology
>out there?

Or (still Unix) don't sort, but select:
grep 'ly$' file
will give you all the words that end in -ly. 

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com/

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