WORDS(5)

✨ WORDS(5) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the word list page 💖 this one is short and sweet, so like, sip your matcha and let's go.

🌸 NAME 🌸

galician-minimos — a list of Galician words, using the "minimos" standard. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

/usr/share/dict/galician-minimos is an ASCII file, and inside it is an alphabetic list of words, one per line. literally just words. stacked. alphabetically. iconic behavior, no notes 💅

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link pointing at a /usr/share/dict/<language> file. so it's a symlink to a symlink's bestie, we love a chain 🫶
• /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and this is the name other software should use when it wants to refer to the system word list. so like, if you're writing a program, this is the name you say out loud. not the others. this one 👑
• want the full tea on all this? go see select-default-wordlist(8) for more information.

also!! the directory /usr/share/dict can hold word lists for many languages, and the name of the language is written in English, okay? so for example /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain, respectively, lists of French and Danish words — if they exist, which, bestie, is a big if, don't come for me if they're not there 😭

and those lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding. that's the requirement, that's the law, respect it 🌈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. go read them, i'll wait 💖

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

ngl the words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources. so like, wherever they came from, they came from somewhere. mystery era 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. a whole committee of legends, we stan a collaborative effort 🎀

and that's the page, bestie!! 💖 this one shipped with the Linux manual, dated 14 Oct 2002, filed under WORDS(5). old but still slaying, fr fr ✨🌸