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Is there already a Metrics Machine word list generator?
I am considering putting together a script that converts all the letter/letter pairs in a Metrics Machine pair list into a word list by pulling words from dictionaries. Before I go through the trouble is there already one out there?
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14 Apr 2011 — 1:05pm
If you have a list of the pairs you can loop through them and for each, do:
grep '[kern pair]' /usr/share/dict/wordsor you can do clever things like two at once, eg
cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep '[kern pair 1]' | grep '[kern pair 2]'so
cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep 'av' | grep 'aw'will get you
awavedrawshave
to output words in all caps add this
| tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'to output words with initial caps add this
| sed 's:^\(.\):\\U\\1:g'14 Apr 2011 — 1:45pm
The above ideas should work on most or all Unix/Linux-based systems, including System X.
But if all you have is a Windows box, you can get some wordlists from http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ and the utility kit from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ and then get down and dirty with the command line. I think they'll work with MSWindows 95-XP. Beyond that, no idea at all.
14 Apr 2011 — 2:16pm
I was thinking more along the lines of using python to dump a collection of word lists into one big and then iterate through a list of pairs and formatting the new split words. I'll cobble something together tomorrow.
15 Dec 2012 — 5:46pm
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19 Dec 2012 — 7:18am
I wonder how
http://adhesiontext.com
that generates dummy text following different languages and criterias, is working...