The WORDLIST is the same hunspell(1) and ispell(1) uses to achieve the same. Apparently aspell(1) does not work with files like traditional dict lists. Reference: https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/blob/master/man/hunspell.1#L388 Reference: http://www.skrenta.com/rt/man/ispell.1.html Reference: http://aspell.net/man-html/Creating-an-Individual-Word-List.html#Creating-an-Individual-Word-List Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> --- misc-utils/look.1 | 5 +++++ misc-utils/look.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/misc-utils/look.1 b/misc-utils/look.1 index 503e38584..cca83416e 100644 --- a/misc-utils/look.1 +++ b/misc-utils/look.1 @@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ sort -d /etc/passwd -o /tmp/look.dict look -t: root:foobar /tmp/look.dict .nf .RE +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP +.B WORDLIST +Path to a dictionary file. The environment variable has greater priority +than the dictionary path defined in FILES segment. .SH FILES .IP "\fB/usr/share/dict/words\fR" 4 the dictionary diff --git a/misc-utils/look.c b/misc-utils/look.c index 60fbbbfca..00061f2a3 100644 --- a/misc-utils/look.c +++ b/misc-utils/look.c @@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); - file = _PATH_WORDS; + if ((file = getenv("WORDLIST"))) { + if (access(file, R_OK)) + err(EXIT_FAILURE, "WORDLIST=%s", file); + } else + file = _PATH_WORDS; + termchar = '\0'; string = NULL; /* just for gcc */ -- 2.14.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
