look command not working properly

[Remco Treffkorn]

On Sunday 06 March 2005 08:14, Lawrence Bowie wrote:
> This command works well on SuSE  ... but not on Core 3 ..
>
>
> ldb at fishbutt:/home/ldb> look america
> ldb at fishbutt:/home/ldb> look american
> ldb at fishbutt:/home/ldb> look amer
> Amer
> Amer.

Off topic here, but:

Try 'look america /usr/share/dict/words'.
Then read the man page about the -f and -d flag.
Then see the dict file and find that it is not sorted with the default (-f) 
look assumes for the user dict file.

I can't decide if the dict is wrong, or the look default...

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