Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-03 Thread Amodelo
Am 02.07.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:18 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: If worst comes to worst and I can't find a way to get grep to do this,

Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a known problem, but just in case anyone doesn't remember, as installed, the following symlink: /usr/share/dict/words - /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't work, because /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't exist upon installation. The following command (run as root) fixes

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Another thing to remember is that the wordlist is no longer ASCII, Excellent thing at the age of UTF-N. cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -i $1 Simplify it: grep -i $1 /usr/share/dict/words If you look up

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Steve Litt wrote: This is a known problem, but just in case anyone doesn't remember, as installed, the following symlink: /usr/share/dict/words - /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't work, because /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't exist upon installation.

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:18 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: If worst comes to worst and I can't find a way to get grep to do this, I'll just put together a substitution table, convert /usr/share/dict/words

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Martin Read
On 02/07/14 18:25, Steve Litt wrote: So then, the question becomes, where does there exist a list of common letters that are, for want of a better word, ornamented ascii? Umlauts, Carats, Circles, Grave accents, etc. Are the charts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ what you're looking for, or