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spell(1)							      spell(1)

Name
       spell, spellin, spellout - check text for spelling errors

Syntax
       spell [-v] [-b] [-x] [-d hlist] [+local-file] [-s hstop] [-h spellhist]
       [file...]

       spellin [list]

       spellout [-d] list

Description
       The command collects words from the named documents, and looks them  up
       in  a  spelling	list.  Words that are not on the spelling list and are
       not derivable from words on the list (by applying certain  inflections,
       prefixes	 or suffixes) are printed on the standard output.  If no files
       are specified, words are collected from the standard input.

       The command ignores most and constructions.

       Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by Both expect a set  of
       words, one per line, from the standard input.  The command combines the
       words from the standard input and the preexisting list file and	places
       a new list on the standard output.  If no list file is specified, a new
       list is generated.  The command looks up each word  from	 the  standard
       input and prints on the standard output those that are missing from (or
       present on, with option -d) the hashed list file.  For example, to ver‐
       ify that hookey is not on the default spelling list, add it to your own
       private list, and then use it with
       echo  hookey  |	spellout  /usr/dict/hlista
       echo  hookey  |	spellin	 /usr/dict/hlista  >  myhlist
       spell  -d  myhlist <filename>

Options
       -v	      Displays words not found in spelling list with all plau‐
		      sible derivations from spelling list.

       -b	      Checks data according to British spelling.  Besides pre‐
		      ferring  centre,	colour,	 speciality,  travelled,  this
		      option  insists  upon -ise instead of -ize in words like
		      standardise.

       -x	      Precedes each word with an equal sign (=)	 and  displays
		      all plausible derivations.

       -d hlist	      Specifies the file used for the spelling list.

       -h spellhist   Specifies the file used as the history file.

       -s hstop	      Specifies the file used for the stop list.

       +local-file    Removes words found in local-file from the output of the
		      command.	The argument local-file is the name of a  file
		      provided	by  the	 user  that  contains a sorted list of
		      words, one per line.  With this  option,	the  user  can
		      specify  a  list	of words for a particular job that are
		      spelled correctly.

       The auxiliary files used for the spelling list, stop list, and  history
       file  may  be  specified	 by  arguments	following  the	-d, -s, and -h
       options.	 The default files are indicated below.	 Copies of all	output
       may be accumulated in the history file.	The stop list filters out mis‐
       spellings (for example, thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.

Restrictions
       The coverage of the spelling list is  uneven;  new  installations  will
       probably	 wish to monitor the output for several months to gather local
       additions.

       The command works only with ASCII text files.

Files
       /usr/dict/hlist[ab] hashed     spelling	   lists,      American	     &
			   British, default for -d
       /usr/dict/hstop	   hashed stop list, default for -s
       /dev/null	   history file, default for -h
       /tmp/spell.$$∗	   temporary files
       /usr/lib/spell

See Also
       deroff(1), sed(1), sort(1), tee(1)

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