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I am self-learning regex so that I can manage my Linux files a lot better for work but I am having trouble finding a word that ends with a specified letter.

I know how to find words that begin with a letter using:

grep -o '\bs\w*' File.txt

I've been trying to add $ so it can do what I am looking for, though I have had no success.

Thanks.

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    If you want to manage files you probably need to put REs to one side for a short while and first learn about shell globs. These are far easier for most use cases and are (mostly) what the shells use for their pattern matching.
    – Chris Davies
    Feb 12, 2017 at 21:10
  • Sure, thanks for the pointer, I will look into shell globs.
    – C. Medina
    Feb 12, 2017 at 21:22

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Figured it out using:

grep -o '\w*s\b' File.txt

If anyone has a similar/better method with the same result please enlighten me.

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  • \w and \b are GNU extensions.
    – Satō Katsura
    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:03

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