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I think it's something with the `/usr/share/dict/words` file, I made a comment in the gist to update the code to the actual english dictionary words, could you try that?

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I've replied to your comment on GH, The problem is likely due to how your symlinks are set-up. Which is an artifact of your systems' locales.

Easiest is to check /usr/share/dict with `ls -hal`. Do read the README there, before manually flipping symlinks around, though.

Perhaps allowing the user to specify a word list, and defaulting to some value would be better than suggesting symlinks.

On Tumbleweed, I have no /usr/share/dict/words, but /use/share/dict/american. Allowing the user to set would also be useful if multiple languages are installed, and doesn't change the number of lines of code.

I changed the first line to:

  words=$(grep -Ex '\w{5}' "/usr/share/dict/${wordlist:=words}" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

so I can invoke it

  wordlist=american wordle.sh

You can also replace it with $1 (or any other positional parameter):

  words=$(grep -Ex '\w{5}' "/usr/share/dict/${1:=words}" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

And invoke it with

  wordle.sh american

In either case, it defaults to /usr/share/dict/words if no list is given. Personally I'd go with the first as you use $1 for guesses, and higher numbered parameters get messy.

In more UNIXy tradition, I'd say either pipe in a file, or pick the default.

That way people can use downloaded files too.

unfortunately using a simple pipe is not going to work, because you're also looking for user input, and you can't do both easily with stdin.

It’s possible to construct parallel (ish) pipeline processing in bash by using file descriptors above 2. See https://mywiki.wooledge.org/FileDescriptor . It’s part of why I always liked Ruby’s .tap() : https://medium.com/aviabird/ruby-tap-that-method-90c8a801fd6...

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