Thanks, Mike. Didn't have that package: $ dpkg -l wamerican Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=================================-=================================-================================================================================== un wamerican <none> (no description available)
Finally got it with an apt-get, but what a rats nest of symlinks: $ ls -l /usr/share/dict/words lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 10 2007 /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words $ ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 6 16:18 /etc/dictionaries-common/words -> /usr/share/dict/american-english $ ls -l /usr/share/dict/american-english -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931467 Dec 20 2005 /usr/share/dict/american-english Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > > In Ubuntu 8.04: > > # ls /usr/share/dict > american-english README.select-wordlist words.pre-dictionaries-common > british-english words > > grep -i '^.eq' /usr/share/dict/words > > or > > grep -i '^.eq' /usr/share/dict/american-english > > Works fine. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
