WORD-AT-A-TIME(1)

WORD-AT-A-TIME(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual corner where we turn messy text into cute little word tokens. this one is called word-at-a-time and she's giving tiny text-processing icon energy. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

word-at-a-time — parse an input file into alphanumeric words. that's the whole job description, and she ate. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

word-at-a-time

literally just call her by name. no args listed, no flags listed, no drama. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie. word-at-a-time reads a text file from standard input. then she goes through it and extracts all sequences of digits and English letters. after that, she lowercases any capital letters — yes, every capital letter gets the lowercase treatment. finally, she prints the resulting terms in input order, one per line. iconic behavior, fr fr. ✨

lowkey perfect when you need alphanumeric words and nothing else. just the terms in the order they appeared. 🎀

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• accn-at-a-time(1)
• filter-stop-words(1)
• join-into-groups-of(1)
• pair-at-a-time(1)
• xsearch(1)

go bother them next, bestie. they're all in the same manual family. 🫶

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that's the whole page, babe. this manual came from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26, and the manual-page title is WORD-AT-A-TIME(1). mwah 💅💖🦋