Checking spelling with ispell
Back in Chapter 6, we showed you how to spell-check your files by using spell and piping the output to more. UNIX also offers you ispell, which gives you an interactive way of spell-checking files, similar to the spell-checking capabilities of many word processing programs (Figure 15.2).
Figure 15.2. ispell lets you interactively spell-check your files.
To check spelling with ispell:
1. | ispell gudspeler At the shell prompt, type ispell followed by the name of the file you want to spell-check. You'll be greeted with your first (allegedly) misspelled word, the sentence the misspelling appears in, suggested words to replace the misspelled word with, and (probably) a menu at the bottom of the screen, as shown in Figure 15.2. The key menu items are listed in Table 15.1. |
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Complete your spell-check using ispell's menu items. |
3. | q Press q to exit ispell, saving all of your changes. |
Tip
Try one (or more) of these flags with the ispell command:
Tip
-b creates a backup file.
Tip
-S sorts guesses by likely correctness.
Tip
-B reports run-together words as spelling errors.
Tip
-M makes sure the menu appears at the bottom of the screen, assuming it doesn't appear automatically.
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