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 the problem: /usr/sbin/update-default-wordlist Another thing to remember is that the wordlist is no longer ASCII, which can trip you up in searches if you forget that. For instance, I have the following shellscript, called dict: ============================================ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -i "$1" ============================================ If you look up ^smor.*rd$, you get nothing. But if you look up ^sm.*rd$ you get smörgåsbord. What I'd like to do is get grep to think "å" is a hit for "a" and report it, but report it as "å". I'll let you know when I figure out how to do that, or do some other thing that produces the same result. Prepending LC_ALL= either C, C.UTF-8, en_US.utf8, or POSIX, to the grep command, didn't do it either. 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 to words.ascii, line for line, search words.ascii, get the line number, and pull that line out of words. Crude, but effective. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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