WORDS(5)

✨ WORDS(5) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about the spanish word list and honestly? it's giving humble-but-iconic. this is from the Linux Programmers Manual, section 5, iykyk 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

spanish — a list of spanish words 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, /usr/share/dict/spanish is an ASCII file, right? and it's literally just an alphabetic list of words, one per line. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 📖✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. not one main character — it's a whole group project situation fr fr 🫂💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/dictionaries-common/words — this is a link to a /usr/share/dict/<language> file. yes, it's italic <language> because that part is a placeholder, bestie, don't type it literally 😭
• /usr/share/dict/words — this one is linked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and it exists for software compatibility. it's the little bridge that keeps older stuff working 🫶

the directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with the name of the language 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, no promises 👀)

⚠️ such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859 character set encoding. like, that's the requirement, not a suggestion 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ispell(1) — go check that one out too, it's the spelling-checker bestie of this whole situation ✨

💜 History 💜

the words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources. so like... they're mysterious. they contain multitudes. we don't ask where they came from 🧚🍓

and that's the tea! this whole page is from the Linux manual, dated 4 June 1994 — yes, before most of us were born, she's a vintage queen 👑 — and she's filed under WORDS(5). stay slaying, word list 💖🌸🦋