Bingo. /usr/share/dict/ has several word lists. I knew it was in there, someplace.
On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 14:29 -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > 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. > > -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
