+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #147949 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I wanted to find out how to spell accelerate. So, I typed 'look accel' and got no answers. I then looked for 'acce', 'acc', 'ac', and 'a'. Only 'a' returned any answers, and it returned a list of all words starting with a capital A only. I tried this on a RedHat AS-3 system, and it worked as expected. I downloaded the srpm for util-linux-2.12a-19, and added some debugging statements to look.c, lines 341 and 386, to print what the strncasecmp and strncmp were seeing and reporting. It appears the problem is that strncasecmp is expecting the /usr/share/dict/words file to be sorted ignoring case, while the strncmp is expecting the file to not be sorted ignoring case. As the file is sorted not ignoring case, strncasecmp is going to lose every time. As a test, I typed 'look accel /usr/share/dict/words', and it worked perfectly. This is the only way I could see to turn off case-insensitivity. The solution is going to be complicated. Step 1: sort /usr/share/dict/words while ignoring case. Step 2: use strncasecmp to find the words. Step 3: if the user wants case sensitivity, filter out words that fail strncmp when printing the results. Oh, and add a command line option that lets you turn off case insensitivity, which defaults to on (-f). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.12a-19, util-linux-2.12a-16 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type: look accel 2. Type: look accel /usr/share/dict/words 3. Type: look a Actual Results: 'look accel' returns nothing. 'look accel /usr/share/dict/words' returns the correct results. 'look a' returns only words starting with 'A'. Expected Results: 'look accel' should have reported words starting with 'accel', upper or lower case. 'look a' should have reported all words starting with 'a', upper or lower case.
Hi, I am really surprised that this bug was created in 2005-04-04 and it has be more than a year and it has not been fixed yet! It's more generic than that -- try 'look a' and it shows NO word at all and this is unique to RHEL derived system. I have traced the culprit to be the file util-linux-2.12p-look-separator.patch. If you comment out applying this patch in spec file and build the package, then the generated 'look' works as expected. This is in RHEL4 U3. (But I tried the 2.13-0.20.4 in Fedora Core 5 and it failed there too.) Hope this helps. Bruce Shei
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The look command is broken and fix requires update the words package too. It works as expected in FC5, and RHEL5. (so comment #3 about FC is not true from my point of view)
*** Bug 214587 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***