philspell
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Name
philspell - correct problematic spelling in text files
Syntax
philspell
[-v] [-f file]
Description
The
command collects words from the standard input
and looks them up in a spelling list.
Words that are not on the spelling list and
are not deriveable from words on the list
(by applying certain inflections, prefixes or suffixes)
are corrected.
To the standard output,
prints the original text with all misspelled words corrected.
Options
- -v
-
Verbose mode; causes
philspell
to output a description of the actions it performs when attempting
to convert the input words into dictionary-bound forms. This output
is printed to stderr.
- -f file
-
Specifys the file used for the spelling list; the default is
/usr/dict/words. The list specified here must be in the same format.
Restrictions
Because of the intricate nature of the calculations performed,
spelling correction can be a very CPU intensive process. On slow
machines with long files or big dictionarys,
can take a few minutes to run.
The coverage of the spelling list (dictionary) 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/words spelling list, default for -f
AUTHOR
Phillip "Edward" Nunez, phillip@soda.berkeley.edu.
See Also
philcc(1), philshar(1), philsort(1), philtee(1), ppp(1), philbiff(1X),
owlspeak(6), propagandaspeak(6), philsccs(1)
Index
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- Syntax
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- Description
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- Options
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- Restrictions
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- Files
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- AUTHOR
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- See Also
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