spell (1)
NAME
spell - GNU spell, a Unix spell emulatorSYNOPSIS
spell [options] files ...DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the spell command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.spell is a program that emulates the traditional Unix spell command by calling the Ispell utility.
It is a spell checking program which prints each misspelled word on a line of its own.
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options are included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.- -I, --ispell-version
- Print Ispell's version.
- -V, --version
- Print the version number.
- -b, --british
- Use the British dictionary.
- -d, --dictionary=FILE
- Use FILE to look up words.
- -h, --help
- Print a summary of the options.
- -i, --ispell=PROGRAM
- Calls PROGRAM as Ispell.
- -D, --ispell-dictionary=DICTIONARY
- Use the named DICTIONARY to look up words.
- -l, --all-chains
- Ignored; for compatibility.
- -n, --number
- Print line numbers before lines.
- -o, --print-file-name
- Print file names before lines.
- -s, --stop-list=FILE
- Ignored; for compatibility.
- -v, --verbose
- Print words not literally found.
- -x, --print-stems
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Ignored; for compatibility.