I don't know if anyone else will like this, but I think its kindof neat. Its a nasty little way to unscramble the word puzzle in the comics of the news paper. The way it unscrambles a word is this: first it makes a hash of every word in a word list (as value) and the key is the letters of the word in order (ex: iiiimppssss=> mississippi). then the scrambled word the user specifies is sorted the same way and used as the key in the hash.

to use first make the database with scriptname -m -w wordlist (-d database path). if you use your own database path you will also have to do -d path when you run: unscramble -u scrambledword (-d path)
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use Getopt::Std;
getopts("u:mw:d:");

#defualt file locations over ride with option -d <path>
$wordlist = "/usr/share/lib/dict/words";
$database = "$ENV{HOME}/.word_db";

#option -u(nscramble) ...
if($opt_u){
    #open default if not specified
    open(IN, $opt_d ? "<$opt_d" : "<$database");
    
    #build the lookup table
    while(<IN>){
        ($value, $key) = split /:/;
        chomp $key;
        $hash{$key} = $value;
    }
    
    #arange the letters to match format of database
    $sorted = join "",sort split//,$opt_u;
    
    #display unscrambled word
    print $hash{$sorted}."\n"; 
}

#build the database file, -m(ake) 
elsif($opt_m){

    open(IN,  $opt_w ? "<$opt_w" : "<$wordlist");
    open(OUT, $opt_d ? ">$opt_d" : ">$database");

    #write lookup table, word:sorted letters
    while(<IN>) {
        chomp;
        $sorted = join "",sort split//;
        print OUT "$_:$sorted\n";
        }
}

else {
    print "Usage: ./$0 [-m] [-w[wordlist]] [-d [database]][-u scramble
+dword]\n";
}

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