UPDATE-DICTCOMMON-HUNSPELL(8)

✨ update-dictcommon-hunspell(8) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about update-dictcommon-hunspell — a lil script from section 8 of the manual (that's the sysadmin-y one, iykyk) 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

update-dictcommon-hunspell — bestie it literally rebuilds the hunspell database and all the emacsen stuff. that's the whole gig. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

update-dictcommon-hunspell

that's it. no flags. no args. she takes nothing and gives everything. queen behavior honestly 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

⚠️ WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. 🚨

fr fr, put the keyboard down unless you are genuinely that girl. this is not a casual vibe-check situation, this is a "you know exactly what you're doing" situation.

so here's the tea ☕ — when this script gets called from a hunspell dict package postinst or postrm, it goes ahead and rebuilds the hunspell database, plus all the squirrelmail and emacsen stuff too. like, the whole little ecosystem gets a glow-up ✨

it's giving "backstage pass" energy — you don't run it yourself, the package maintainer scripts do, and it just handles its business 😌

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• The dictionaries-common policy — go read it, it's the lore 📖

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Rafael Laboissiere
• Agustin Martin

absolute icons, both of them. we stan 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this was version 1.31.4, dated 2026-3-22, and it's the UPDATE-DICTCOMMON-HUNSPELL(8) manual — mwah, slay, go forth and not run this from the command line 💖🌸✨