Hi All,

Hope all of you familiar with grep command. Here is one more trick to solve the crossword puzzle using the grep command and the dictionary file.

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$ grep "^.ro..w.r.$" /usr/share/dict/words
 
broomwort
brownwort
crossword
crosswort
crownwork
crownwort
frontward
frostwork
frostwort

Just replace unknown character by . (dot) in the grep command.

bye

kamaraj