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On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:11:25PM -0400, Mike Hunter wrote:
Hey everybody,
I'm having a strange problem with a hosted CentOS environment. I like to use `look` to correct my spelling. But it isn't willing to help me with the word "manager":
#>look man | wc -l 1001 #>look mana | wc -l 0 #>grep "^mana" /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l 54
#> look man | grep -B2 -A2 manager managemental managements manager manager's managerdom manageress managerial managerially managers managership managery manages managing
#>md5sum `which look` 05ef59ae2f9183e525ec531dcb07ee8b /usr/bin/look #>cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.3 (Final) #>uname -a Linux blahblah.com 2.6.8-022stab078.9-entnosplit #1 SMP Thu Jun 8 12:46:44 MSD 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Virtuozzo VPS ?
Can anybody confirm these results? Any suggestions for a fix?
I can.
util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.16
Some other interesting (d)effects:
#> look AngloCatholicism Anglo-Catholicism
(Note: Both Anglo-Catholicism and AngloCatholicism are on the words file)
And now, for something entirely new:
#> look manager /usr/share/dict/words manager manager's managerdom manageress managerial managerially managers managership managery
Which leads me to the conclusion that is has nothing to do with the words file, and it a but of the look utility itself.
Running strace, you can see that, in both cases, the exact same file is opened:
#> strace look manager /usr/share/dict/words (...) open("/usr/share/dict/words", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 (...)
#> strace look manager (...) open("/usr/share/dict/words", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 (...)
Go figure.
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