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grep for double words in text
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| # I use this to find double words in a text file | |
| # for example, "Give it to the kid." gets typoed as "Give it the the kid." | |
| # this regex will find "the the" and help me track down those double word typos | |
| egrep '(\b\w+)\s\1\b' *.txt --color -n |
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