#!/usr/bin/env bash weasels="many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely\ |exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly\ |mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)\ |excellent|interestingly|significantly\ |substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely" wordfile="" # Check for an alternate weasel file if [ -f "$HOME"/etc/words/weasels ]; then wordfile="$HOME/etc/words/weasels" fi if [ -f "$WORDSDIR"/weasels ]; then wordfile="$WORDSDIR/weasels" fi if [ -f words/weasels ]; then wordfile="words/weasels" fi if [ ! "$wordfile" = "" ]; then weasels="xyzabc123" for w in $(cat $wordfile); do weasels="$weasels|$w" done fi if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "usage: $(basename "$0") ..." exit fi grep -E -i -n --color "\\b($weasels)\\b" "$*" exit $?