Look command not working for me

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 06 October 2006 04:21, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>> David Arnstein wrote:
>>> When I type into my bash shell, for example
>>>     look doctor
>>> I get
>>>     look: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> The directory /usr/share/dict does not even exist. I have reinstalled
>>> the util-linux package. No help.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions? Cygcheck output is attached.
>>>
>> Maybe try the source package?  Dunno.  It's definitely not in the binary
>> package or anything else I can find via http://cygwin.com/packages/.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=util-linux%2Futil-linux-2.12r-
> 2&grep=look.exe

What package 'look.exe' is in is not the question, Dave K..  Read the thread
through again.

Something that occurred to me later was that the postinstall script could
be the one responsible for generating this file somehow.  David, I suppose
you could also look at this (/etc/postinstall/util-linux.sh).

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