{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "UPDATE-DEFAULT-WORDLIST",
    "section": "8",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/UPDATE-DEFAULT-WORDLIST/8/json",
    "generated": "2026-10-06T12:56:35Z",
    "synopsis": "update-default-wordlist [--skip-symlinks] [--triggered]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "update-default-wordlist - update default wordlist\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "update-default-wordlist [--skip-symlinks] [--triggered]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing.\n\nThis program is intended to be called from wordlist package postinst, from select-default-\nwordlist or from dictionaries-common postinst.\n\nWhen called under dpkg control with the --trigger option the script is run normally,\notherwise the dictionaries-common update-default-wordlist trigger is enabled for later run.\n\nWith the --skip-symlinks option the symlinks setting is skipped.\n\nWhen run normally (from the command line or with --trigger) this script rebuilds the info at\n/var/cache/dictionaries-common/wordlist.db after files under\n/var/lib/dictionaries-common/wordlist, reads the system default from the debconf database and\nunless disabled, set default symlinks in /etc/dictionaries-common pointing to the appropriate\nfiles in /usr/share/dict/.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "--skip-symlinks  Do not try to set symlinks at /etc/dictionaries-common dir.\n--triggered      Run all the code instead of trying to enable\nupdate-default-wordlist trigger\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "The dictionaries-common policy document\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHORS": {
            "content": "Rafael Laboissiere, Agustin Martin Domingo\n\n1.29.7                                        2023-9-07                   UPDATE-DEFAULT-WORDLIST(8)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "update-default-wordlist - update default wordlist",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": []
}