On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 01:58:51PM -0700, Tim Wescott wrote: > I feel a need for some concentrated word play. > > Is there a word list (i.e., a spelling dictionary or similar) that would > (A) be found in most standard Linux distributions (or at least Ubuntu), > and (B) be in plain text format or some other easy-to-parse format? > > I'd like to be able to do regex searches on all the words in the English > language. /usr/share/dict/<somefile> used to be the standard. Improved spell checkers don't use an alpabetical plain text file anymore.
well, that's disappointing. Aspell has some binary format. You might install the mythes package - its word index is <WORD>|<somenum> so you can parse that. A bit of Googling brought good news though. https://superuser.com/questions/137957/how-to-convert-aspell-dictionary-to-simple-list-of-words replace the PL given in the example with en and you'll have a list of words. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere. ~ A.S. Byatt, Posession _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug