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User Commands spell(1)
NAME
spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - report spelling errors
SYNOPSIS
spell [-bilvx] [ + local_file] [file] ...
/usr/lib/spell/hashmake
/usr/lib/spell/spellin n
/usr/lib/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, or suffixes) from words in the spelling list are
written to the standard output.
If there are no file arguments, words to check are collected
from the standard input. spell ignores most troff(1),
tbl(1), and eqn(1) constructs. Copies of all output words
are accumulated in the history file (spellhist), and a stop
list filters out misspellings (for example, their=thy-y+ier)
that would otherwise pass.
By default, spell (like deroff(1)) follows chains of
included files (.so and .nx troff(1) requests), unless the
names of such included files begin with /usr/lib.
The standard spelling list is based on many sources, and
while more haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, is also
more effective in respect to proper names and popular techn-
ical words. Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of
biology, medicine and chemistry is light.
Three programs 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 Reads n hash codes from the standard input
and writes a compressed spelling list on the
standard output.
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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.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-b Check British spelling. Besides preferring
"centre," "colour," "programme," "special-
ity," "travelled," and so forth, this option
insists upon -ise in words like "standar-
dise."
-i Cause deroff(1) to ignore .so and .nx com-
mands. If deroff(1) is not present on the
system, then this option is ignored.
-l Follow the chains of all included files.
-v Print all words not literally in the spel-
ling list, as well as plausible derivations
from the words in the spelling list.
-x Print every plausible stem, one per line,
with = preceding each word.
+local_file Specify a set of words that are correct
spellings (in addition to spell's own spel-
ling list) for each job. local_file is the
name of a user-provided file that contains a
sorted list of words, one per line. Words
found in local_file are removed from spell's
output. Use sort(1) to order local_file in
ASCII collating sequence. If this ordering
is not followed, some entries in local_file
may be ignored.
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User Commands spell(1)
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file A path name of a text file to check for spelling
errors. If no files are named, words are collected
from the standard input.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
variables that affect the execution of spell: LC_CTYPE,
LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
D_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hlist[ab] hashed spelling
lists, American &
British
S_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hstop hashed stop list
H_SPELL=/var/adm/spellhist history file
/usr/share/lib/dict/words master dictionary
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWesu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
deroff(1), eqn(1), sort(1), tbl(1), troff(1), attributes(5),
environ(5)
NOTES
Misspelled words can be monitored by default by setting the
H_SPELL variable in /usr/bin/spell to the name of a file
that has permission mode 666.
spell works only on English words defined in the U.S. ASCII
codeset.
Because copies of all output are accumulated in the
spellhist file, spellhist may grow quite large and require
purging.
BUGS
The spelling list's coverage is uneven; new installations
may wish to monitor the output for several months to gather
local additions.
British spelling was done by an American.
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