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spell(1) spell(1)
NAME
spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - find spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell [-v][-b][
-x][-l][-i][+local_file ][files ]
/usr/lbin/spell/hashmake
/usr/lbin/spell/spellin
n
/usr/lbin/spell/hashcheck
spelling_list
DESCRIPTION
The
spell command collects words from the named files and looks them up in a spelling list. Words
that neither occur among nor are derivable (by applying certain inflections, prefixes, and/or suffixes) from
words in the spelling list are printed on the standard output. If no files are named, words are collected
from the standard input.
The
spell command ignores most troff, tbl
, and eqn constructions.
Options
The
spell command recognizes the following options:
-v All words not literally in the spelling list are printed, and plausible derivations
from the words in the spelling list are indicated.
-b British spelling is checked. Besides preferring centre, colour, programme,
speciality, travelled, etc., this option insists upon -ise in certain words,
such as in standardise.
-x Every plausible stem is printed with = for each word.
By default,
spell follows chains of included files much like deroff (see deroff(1)) which recognizes the
troff/nroff intrinsics .so and .nx, unless the names of such included files begin with
/usr/share/lib. If the
-l option is used, spell follows the chains of all included files. With the -i
option, spell ignores all chains of included files.
If the
+local_file option is used, words found in local_file are removed from
spell’s output. local_file is
the name of a user-provided file containing a sorted list of words, one per line. With this option, the user
can specify a set of words that are correct spellings (in addition to spell ’s own spelling list) for each job.
The spelling list is based on many sources, and while more haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, is also
more effective with respect to proper names and popular technical words. Coverage of the specialized
vocabularies of biology, medicine, and chemistry is light.
Pertinent auxiliary files can be specified by name arguments, indicated below with their default settings
(see FILES and VARIABLES). Copies of all output are accumulated in the history file. The stop list
filters out misspellings (such as
thier=thy-y+ier
) that would otherwise pass.
Three routines help maintain and check the hash lists used by
spell:
hashmake Reads a list of words from the standard input and writes the corresponding nine-
digit hash code on the standard output. This program only accepts words that are
up to 30 characters long. When words exceeding 30 characters are encountered, a
diagnostic message is displayed on standard error.
spellin n Reads n hash codes from the standard input and writes a compressed spelling list
on the standard output. Information about the hash coding is printed on standard
error.
hashcheck Reads a compressed spelling_list and recreates the nine-digit hash codes for all the
words in it; it writes these codes on the standard output.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
D_SPELL Your hashed spelling list (default is D_SPELL=/usr/share/dict/hlist[ab])
H_SPELL Spelling history (default is H_SPELL=/var/adm/spellhist).
S_SPELL Your hashed stop list (default is S_SPELL=/usr/share/dict/hstop).
TMPDIR Directory for temporary files; overrides the default /tmp.
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