Question

How would a go about making a program where the user enters a string, and the program generates a list of words beginning with that string?

Ex:
User: ‘abd’
Program:abdicate, abdomen, abduct…

Thanks!

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Edit: I’m using python, but I assume that this is a fairly language-independent problem.

Answer 1

If you on a debian[-like] machine,

#!/bin/bash echo -n 'Enter a word: ' read input grep '^$input' /usr/share/dict/words 

Takes all of 0.040s on my P200.