[ILUG-Social] Linux/Unix Dictionary

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:57:02PM -0400, Ronan Herron mentioned:
> Hi all,
> would anyone know where I could download an english dictionary. It wouldn't 
> even need to provide definitions, a simple word list would do. The reason I'm 
> looking for this; being very much a newbie to the world of Linux I am trying 
> to get up to speed in the use of grep, sed, and regular expressions. And what 
> better way I thought than to use a wordlist/dictionary and cheat at 
> crosswords!! 

 Check out;
    /usr/share/dict/words

 on most linux installations.

 www.dict.org has a downloadable free dictionary & search thingy too. I
use "gdict", a gnome applet that I can bang words into, and it goes off to
dict.org, does a search, and then brings up the definitions required in a
window on the desktop. Kick ass.

Kate

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