WORDS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to words(1) — the Unix manual page for finding words that can be made from a string of letters. It’s giving word-scramble main character energy, and honestly? Obsessed. ✨

🔤 SYNOPSIS 🔤

words [-w word-file] [-m min-length] letters

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

words prints all the uncapitalized words in the word list that can be made from the string of letters. Each letter can appear in a word once for each time it appears in the string. no cap, that’s the whole bit. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

words accepts the following options, bestie:

• -w word-file — By default, words looks for a word-file named 'wordlist' in the same directory as the executable. Use the -w option to specify the path to an alternate word list. 🗂️
• -m min-length — By default, words prints words of any length that can be made from the string of letters. Use the -m option to specify the minimum length of each word. words will skip any words that are less than the specified length. 📏

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

wordlist

The list of words, found with the executable. 💖

For a comprehensive word list, the author recommends the ENABLE word list, with more than 172,000 words, which can be found at http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/software.html. 🦋

🐛 BUGS 🐛

This implementation of words has no known bugs. slay, honestly. 👑

✍️ AUTHOR ✍️

This implementation of words in Perl was written by Ronald J Kimball, rjk-perl@tamias.net. 🫶

📜 COPYRIGHT and LICENSE 📜

This program is copyright 1999 by Ronald J Kimball. 🎀

This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, or distribute this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same. 💜

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