SPELL(1)							      SPELL(1)

NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     spell, spellin, spellout -	find spelling errors

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

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

     spellin [ list ]

     spellout [	-d ] list

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     Spell collects words from the named documents, and	looks them up in a
     spelling list.  Words that	neither	occur among nor	are derivable (by
     applying certain inflections, prefixes 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.

     Spell ignores most	troff, tbl and eqn(1) constructions.

     Under the -v option, all words not	literally in the spelling list are
     printed, and plausible derivations	from spelling list words are
     indicated.

     Under the -b option, British spelling is checked.	Besides	preferring
     centre, colour, speciality, travelled, etc., this option insists upon -
     ise in words like standardise, Fowler and the OED to the contrary
     notwithstanding.

     Under the -x option, every	plausible stem is printed with `=' for each
     word.

     The spelling list is based	on many	sources.  While	it is more haphazard
     than an ordinary dictionary, it is	also more effective with proper	names
     and popular technical words.  Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of
     biology, medicine and chemistry is	light.

     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 misspellings
     (e.g. thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.

     Two routines help maintain	the hash lists used by spell. Both expect a
     set of words, one per line, from the standard input.  Spellin 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,
     the new list is created from scratch.  Spellout 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 verify	that hookey is not on the default spelling list, add
     it	to your	own private list, and then use it with spell,



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	  echo	hookey	|  spellout  /usr/share/lib/spell/hlista
	  echo	hookey	|  spellin  /usr/share/lib/spell/hlista	 >  myhlist
	  spell	 -d  myhlist  huckfinn

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /usr/share/lib/spell/hlista    hashed American spelling list, default for
     -d
     /usr/share/lib/spell/hlistb    hashed British spelling list, default for
     -d
     /usr/share/lib/spell/hstop	    hashed stop	list, default for -s
     /usr/share/lib/dict/words	    the	dictionary
     /dev/null			    history file, default for -h
     /tmp/spell.$$*		    temporary files
     /usr/lib/spell

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

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

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The spelling list's coverage is uneven; new installations will probably
     wish to monitor the output	for several months to gather local additions.
     British spelling was done by an American.


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