Unix

[JONES976]

Hi.

I have decided to finally try andbecome active here....

Anyway, my question is that I've just started to use unix and I'm trying to find the 5576 or so word from the dictionary /usr/share/.........../..../dict/words

I also cn only use head tail cat

Any suggestions?

[Zeldhoron]

i'm not so good with bash or the command line but in c++ i would say:

std::string nthWord(int n){std::string contents;std::ifstream in(filePath, std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);if (in) contents = std::string(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(in), std::istreambuf_iterator<char>());else return -1;int proc = 0;int lineCount = 1;while (lineCount != n){if (contents.find("\n", proc) != std::string::npos){lineCount++;proc = contents.find("\n", proc);}else return -1;}return contents.substr(proc, contents.find("\n", proc));}

Probably needs some tweaking but you should get the idea if you understand c++.

If you don't understand it i'm sorry i could explain it more if you want

[Linus_torvalds]

Hi.

I have decided to finally try andbecome active here....

Anyway, my question is that I've just started to use unix and I'm trying to find the 5576 or so word from the dictionary /usr/share/.........../..../dict/words

I also cn only use head tail cat

Any suggestions?

can you explain? i do not know english well (i did not understand what you want) but i'm good at bash, python etc

so you have some file "words" with words in it and you want to get exactly 5576 words out of it?

how are words written in that file?

can you show me that files example?

[e4effort]

Using only the commands listed...

Head -5576 /usr/whateveryourfilepathis | tail -1