Hi Turns out that util-linux is working as described in its manpage. I tried with the older implementation (bsdmainutils) too and the same issue persists. So the root cause is the default wordlist. "look" expects the default wordlist to be sorted in a case-insensitive manner (which it was earlier) but now it is sorted in the ASCII order. We can: - Request the maintainers of wordlist to revert the way they sort the words (atleast wamerican) - Supply our own wordlists to specifically make "look" work, but this will need to be in all supported languages and the default wordlist would change based on the locale of the user - run a sort everytime (or better, the first time - but we will have to track change in locales) "look" is used in the default way.
Since the first two options are overkill for this, and the last option can be easily done by the user (sort the exisiting /usr/share/dict/words, save as another file, set that as the WORDLIST env) than requiring a change in the util-linux package, I have moved this bug to "Won't Fix" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1971425 Title: The "look" cli dictionary only sees capitalized words Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in util-linux source package in Jammy: Won't Fix Status in util-linux source package in Lunar: Won't Fix Status in util-linux package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: In Ubuntu 20.04; ~ > look accident accident accident's accidental accidental's accidentally accidentals accidents In Ubuntu 22.04; ~ > look accident (nothing) ~ > look acc Accenture Accenture's Accra Accra's Digging deeper; the dictionary at /usr/share/dict/words seems OK. If I copy the "look" binary from Ubuntu 20.04 and use it on Ubuntu 22.04 it works; ~ > ./look accident accident accidental accidentally accidental's accidentals accident's accidents ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: bsdextrautils 2.37.2-4ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue May 3 14:19:57 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-07 (1334 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) SourcePackage: util-linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-05-01 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1971425/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
