* look: no words file
@ 2016-07-11 19:05 David Arnstein
2016-07-11 19:16 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-07-12 16:02 ` Brian Inglis
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From: David Arnstein @ 2016-07-11 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Wnen I type something like
look mental
I get
look: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory
In fact, directory /usr/share/dict does not even exist.
Rather than trying to diagnose this problem, I would like to re-install the
relevant package(s). So far, I have tried util-linux and bash-completion. No
improvement. Any other suggestions?
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* Re: look: no words file
2016-07-11 19:05 look: no words file David Arnstein
@ 2016-07-11 19:16 ` Marco Atzeri
[not found] ` <20160711195559.GA7301@server2.tzongtze.com>
2016-07-12 16:02 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Marco Atzeri @ 2016-07-11 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 11/07/2016 21:05, David Arnstein wrote:
> Wnen I type something like
> look mental
> I get
> look: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory
>
> In fact, directory /usr/share/dict does not even exist.
>
> Rather than trying to diagnose this problem, I would like to re-install the
> relevant package(s). So far, I have tried util-linux and bash-completion. No
> improvement. Any other suggestions?
>
there is no "/usr/share/dict/words" in any package
$ cygcheck -p usr/share/dict/words
Found 0 matches for usr/share/dict/words
But scowl has 3 dictionary that eventually you can
try to use. (I have not tested it)
$ cygcheck -p usr/share/dict
Found 2 matches for usr/share/dict
scowl-2015.08.24-2 - scowl: Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists (installed
binaries and support files)
scowl-2016.01.19-1 - scowl: Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists (installed
binaries and support files)
see package content
https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/scowl/scowl-2016.01.19-1
Regards
Marco
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* Re: look: no words file
2016-07-11 19:05 look: no words file David Arnstein
2016-07-11 19:16 ` Marco Atzeri
@ 2016-07-12 16:02 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2016-07-12 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
David Arnstein <arnstein <at> pobox.com> writes:
> Wnen I type something like
> look mental
> I get
> look: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory
> In fact, directory /usr/share/dict does not even exist.
> Rather than trying to diagnose this problem, I would like to re-install the
> relevant package(s). So far, I have tried util-linux and bash-completion. No
> improvement. Any other suggestions?
FSF/GNU package miscfiles provides /usr/share/dict/ and other files, but is
not packaged for Cygwin, although it is available on most Unix distros.
You can easily download, install the contents, add a symlink from
/usr/share/dict/web2 -> words (for compatibility), or you can run look -a to
use web2 instead of words.
If you have a handy Unix system, you could just scp the files over to Cygwin.
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