echo $thing | tr -dc '[:punct:]' Running it against a bunch of my writing does produce something that feels like a common pattern of symbols. Though there does

echo $thing | tr -dc '[:punct:]' Running it against a bunch of my writing does produce something that feels like a common pattern of symbols. Though there doesn't seem to be munch commonality between my fiction and non-fiction writing, where I'd expected at least a little bit of an overlap.