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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 voca-
bularies 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.
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.
EXAMPLES
To check spelling of a single word:
echo word | spell
If word is spelled correctly, a prompt is returned. If it is spelled incorrectly, word is printed before the
prompt is returned. To check spelling of multiple words, they can also be typed as a group on the same
command line:
echo worda wordb wordc ... | spell
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