“The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.” meaning












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I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:




Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.



-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)




Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?










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  • Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.

    – Michael Homer
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  • I've never heard "victim" used in a neutral, non-negative context, even with computing (i.e. process 42 was chosen as the deadlock victim.)

    – JacobIRR
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I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:




Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.



-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)




Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?










share|improve this question























  • Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.

    – Michael Homer
    51 mins ago











  • I've never heard "victim" used in a neutral, non-negative context, even with computing (i.e. process 42 was chosen as the deadlock victim.)

    – JacobIRR
    47 mins ago
















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I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:




Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.



-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)




Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?










share|improve this question














I'm playing around with /usr/share/dict/propernames for this pet-naming utility I'm building, and I saw this curious line from /usr/share/dict/README:




Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.



-- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)




Is this comment suggesting that the wordlist file could chew up a lot of work you may be trying to do with a high-level grep by bogging it down inside a list of hundreds of thousands of words? Providing lots of false positives for a grep? Or something else?







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  • Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.

    – Michael Homer
    51 mins ago











  • I've never heard "victim" used in a neutral, non-negative context, even with computing (i.e. process 42 was chosen as the deadlock victim.)

    – JacobIRR
    47 mins ago





















  • Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.

    – Michael Homer
    51 mins ago











  • I've never heard "victim" used in a neutral, non-negative context, even with computing (i.e. process 42 was chosen as the deadlock victim.)

    – JacobIRR
    47 mins ago



















Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.

– Michael Homer
51 mins ago





Is there any reason (context) to think it means something other than what it says directly (i.e. that it might be useful to grep this list for a word)? I don't see anything suggesting something malicious in the extract.

– Michael Homer
51 mins ago













I've never heard "victim" used in a neutral, non-negative context, even with computing (i.e. process 42 was chosen as the deadlock victim.)

– JacobIRR
47 mins ago







I've never heard "victim" used in a neutral, non-negative context, even with computing (i.e. process 42 was chosen as the deadlock victim.)

– JacobIRR
47 mins ago












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