italian(5)

💖 italian — a whole vibe check of italian words 💖

okay bestie, this is italian(5), a manual page from the Debian GNU/Linux corner of the world, and it's literally just here to tell you where the italian word list lives. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

italian — it's a list of italian words, and that's the whole thing, she's simple, she's iconic 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so /usr/share/dict/italian — wait, no, let me say that properly with no stray space: /usr/share/dict/italian — is an ASCII file, and inside it there's an alphabetic list of words, one per line. that's it. that's the whole file. a long lil stack of words, single file, alphabetically ordered, one word per line, like a text message thread but for vocabulary 🦋

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this word list was collected from completely free (GPL'd) sources, and it's maintained by Davide G. M. Salvetti <salve@debian.org>. give her her flowers 💐

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/dictionary — this is a link to a /usr/share/dict/<language> file. so it's giving middleman energy, a lil pointer, and we love that for her 🫶
• /usr/share/dict/words — this one is linked to /etc/dictionary, and it exists purely for software compatibility. not for drama, not for aesthetics, just so old software doesn't throw a fit 😌

the directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with the name of the language written in English, e.g. /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words — if they exist. key phrase bestie, if they exist, don't come for me if they don't 🙈

and those lists should be coded using the ISO 8859 character set encoding. yes, that's the rule. that's the requirement. no negotiating 🎯

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ispell(1), look(1). go read those next, they're the supporting cast and they ate 💅✨

📜 History 📜

the word lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources. so like... don't assume where they came from, because honestly? nobody knows, and that's the tea ☕

lowkey important: these word lists are not specific and may come from any number of sources, so treat them accordingly fr fr 💀

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this was italian(5) from the Debian Project, dated 31 October 1997 — yeah, 1997, she's a vintage queen and she's still serving 👑💖