Solve Crossword Puzzle

Script to solve Crossword Puzzle


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HOW THIS SCRIPT WORKS:
There are two files named british-english and american-english which contains all words in the dictionary without their meaning i.e just the word only , in /usr/share/dict.
The puzzle  provided is compared with the words in any of the above files. 
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#!/bin/bash

#for solving crossword puzzle
# put '?' in place of missing letter
# if you want british spelling replace 'american-english' with 'british-english'

read -p "please enter the puzzle:"

word=$(echo $REPLY | sed 's/?/./g')
cat /usr/share/dict/american-english | grep --color=always "^$word$"


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Suppose you want solve  puzzle "_ros__ord" , you should enter as ?ros??ord ( put question mark instead of blank spaces ). The script in this case is named crossword .OK lets solve this puzzle together ..

Ohh!! It is crossword !!

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