Proofreading for illusions with grep and AWK

Posted by eldersnake on Jun 18, 2016 9:25 AM EDT
The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov
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Lexical illusions are very hard to find when proofreading. The most common lexical illusion is a duplicated word, as in this well-known example: "A lexical illusion: many people are not aware that the the brain will automatically ignore a second instance of the word 'the' when it starts a new line." But if you let grep and AWK do the proofreading — problem solved!

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