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This is basic common sense. I have been using this method for as long as I can remember. You don't need special apps other than your simple text editor. Almost all modern terminal emulators recognise URLs. You can test this by hovering your mouse over a link in a text file -- The link get underlined. Ctrl-click opens the link in the default browser. Add new URLs with a little description or a few words as tags -- all free hand on the same line as the URL. Consider using Linux "less" as it allows you to search through thousands of URLs and find what you want in seconds. Ctrl-click and you are done.


Should get rid of the reward system -- or at least reform it drastically to discourage pettiness. An accepted solution should not result in a reward to anybody. Somebody just starting to learn a topic posts a basic question and gets an answer from an old timer - and they both get rewarded! for what? There seems to be an army of "moderators" who are ready to pounce on easy questions and they end the answer by reminding the OP that he should upvote or accept the answer! Did any of them added anything to the knowledge base? You can get excellent answers to basic questions from ChatGPT anyway. Also they won't allow new members (perhaps experts) from commenting until they have picked up enough credits yet. The whole system is downright silly.


This produces 35 items. The grep version gives 93


Yeah, I failed to make the pattern case insensitive.

Here's a fixed version that also handles S/5:

    sed -E -e '/^[A-FIOSa-fios]{6}$/!d; y/abcdefiosIOS/ABCDEF105105/; s/^/#/' /usr/share/dict/words


I am 71 and I have been using Linux-only laptops for 14 years. Pre-Linux days were the dark ages of my computing experience. I wasted so much of my life with Windows. I used to dread those untimely updates that used to ruin my apps and the data. I never seemed to have enough RAM or hard disk or enough processing power. A re-boot took forever. Regular fresh installation was a must. MacBook was a great improvement. But the flexibility and openness of Linux beat the pants off those. An ordinary cheap laptop with a fresh installation of Ubuntu flies like a bird. I never need to worry about big RAM or huge disk etc. I have created my own help files and ways of accessing all options and flags of commands and their examples with just a few clicks and key presses. I love learning new tips and tricks every day even though I know I will never master it fully. I don't waste time encouraging people to switch over to Linux. It is astonishing how much fear there is among even the young people to try a new operating system.


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