Does OS X have an internal dictionary?

[ian27]

I'm creating PHP sessions on my local server and have a script that resets any passwords created in the MySQL database by selecting a random word from the dictionary. The script I have gives the path /usr/dict/words but I don't have such a file. Does anybody know where the dictionary might be located? So far I have been unable to find it.

Thanks.

Ian

 

[TommyWillB]

/usr/share/dict/words

 

[ian27]

Excellent mate, thanks!

You've no idea how long I've spent trying to find this. I even downloaded something called fink which allow me to install ispell or something but I got completely lost. I think Unix is a bit above me.

Anyway, the PHP sessions are all working now - thanks again.

Ian

 

[TommyWillB]

So you'll hate that I found this in 30 seconds.

When in doubt the unix command "apropos" is great!

At the terminal I typed "arprpos dictionary" and got the results "Dict" and "look". I did a man on each, and look had a reference to the file I pointed you at.

 

[fuzz]

So you'll hate that I found this in 30 seconds.

When in doubt the unix command "apropos" is great!

At the terminal I typed "arprpos dictionary" and got the results "Dict" and "look". I did a man on each, and look had a reference to the file I pointed you at.

This is kinda interesting and might help me with related question ... I'd like to see if I can customize the Chinese dictionary on OS X. I typed:

apropos chinese dictionary

and it gave me:

Encode::CN(3pm) - China-based Chinese Encodings
Encode::TW(3pm) - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
Search:ict(3pm), look(3pm) - search for key in dictionary file

any idea what this means? What do I do now to find the equivalent of that /usr/dict/words file?

Thanks!

 

[fuzz]

This is kinda interesting and might help me with related question ... I'd like to see if I can customize the Chinese dictionary on OS X. I typed:

apropos chinese dictionary

and it gave me:

Encode::CN(3pm) - China-based Chinese Encodings
Encode::TW(3pm) - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
Search:ict(3pm), look(3pm) - search for key in dictionary file

any idea what this means? What do I do now to find the equivalent of that /usr/dict/words file?

Thanks!

I found something at ...

/usr/share/locale


I think this is over my head now