7 Oct
2020
7 Oct
'20
11:20 a.m.
Hello Steve,
scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
About once a month I wish I had /usr/dict/words on my
machine...
On my Ubuntu Linux system:
$ ls -l /usr/share/dict
total 2372
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 971578 Oct 20 2017 american-english
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 967402 Oct 20 2017 british-english
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477238 Aug 4 2017 cracklib-small
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 Oct 10 2016 README.select-wordlist
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 31 2020 words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 31 2020 words.pre-dictionaries-common ->
american-english
$ ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 31 2020 /etc/dictionaries-common/words ->
/usr/share/dict/american-english
And my port of Doug's spell(1) from V10 (see my github):
$ ls src/v10spell/
american brspell.v10 list mkfile README.md spellsh.in stop
amspell.v10 ChangeLog local pcode.c spell.1 spell-wrapper.sh tools
british code.h makefile README spell.pdf sprog.c
HTH,
Arnold