“The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.” meaning
I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:
Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)
Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?
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I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:
Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)
Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?
grep
asked 6 mins ago
JacobIRRJacobIRR
1234
Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful togrepthis list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.
– Michael Homer
1 min ago
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I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:
Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)
Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?
grep
asked 6 mins ago
JacobIRRJacobIRR
1234
I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:
Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)
Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?
grep
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Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful togrepthis list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.
– Michael Homer
1 min ago
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Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful togrepthis list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.
– Michael Homer
1 min ago
Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to
grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.– Michael Homer
1 min ago
Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to
grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.– Michael Homer
1 min ago
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Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to
grepthis list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.– Michael Homer
1 min ago