dictionary / unix

[Fred Martin_1]

Is it possible to dump out in readable form, the words in the HP-UX 'spell' dictionary? I'm reading the 'spell' man pages put not getting anywhere.

[Abdul Rahiman · Accepted solution]

From looking at the spell man page, I think the spelling word list may be a proprietery information kept by the vendor. What is available on the system in /usr/share/dict/ are the hashlists of the words and we may not be able to decode the hashcodes unless we know the hashing algorithm used.

What are you trying to do? If you want to add custom words to the dictionary, there is a process outlined in the spell's man page.

[Ken Penland_1]

In looking at man pages and playing with the tools, it looks to me like they went through some pains to make it so you could NOT view the contents of the file.

[Fred Martin_1]

Ok not a problem, to be honest I was just going to spit out a list and paw through the six-letter words looking for good hostnames :)

[Rodney Hills]

We've used Greek/Roman gods for our servers. It's easy to find a list on the web.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Michael Tully]

Here's what some other guys use:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=98756