z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

spell
spell — Detect spelling errors in files
Format
Description
Options
spell [–biluvx] [–d hashfile] [–f local] [–h history] [+local] [file ...]
Note: The spell utility is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX systems.
However, because it is no longer supported by POSIX.2 IEEE standard
1003.2-1992, this utility should be avoided for applications intended to be
portable to other UNIX- branded systems.
spell checks for misspelled words in each specified file. If you do not specify a file,
it checks the standard input (stdin). A list of potentially misspelled words is
produced on standard output (stdout).
Words are checked against a local word list and then against a hashed word list.
The hashed word list included in this distribution contains virtually no proper names
or technical terms. It is assumed that you will enter these words into your local word
list (or into your machine’s word list). Any capitalized word in the hash list must be
capitalized in the input document; all other words are matched either capitalized or
not. All word forms, including plurals, must be explicitly included in the hash list.
This approach prevents the acceptance of nonsense words that can result from the
algorithmic combination of legal roots with legal suffixes or prefixes, a phenomenon
common to many other spelling checkers.
–b Uses British spelling (such as “colour” instead of “color”). The dictionary file
used is /usr/lib/hashb instead of /usr/lib/hash.
–d hashfile
Uses hashfile as the dictionary. hashfile is a hash list produced from a list of
words using the -i option of spell. To use a list other than the default
/usr/lib/hash, the –d option must be specified.
–f local
Uses the file local as a dictionary of local words, given one word per line. If
you do not specify this option, the file /usr/lib/lwords is used as the local
dictionary.
–h history
Appends a history of all misspelled words to the file history. This file can
be used by a system administrator for dictionary maintenance or generating
a local dictionary.
–i Creates a new hash list file or add words to an existing file, instead of
checking for spelling errors. Words to be entered into the dictionary should
be specified one per line with no white space on the line. Lines beginning
with the # character are ignored as comments. Be sure that the words you
are entering into the hash list are correctly spelled.
–l Produces a longer form of output. For each misspelled word, spell prints
three tab-separated columns containing the misspelled word, the line
number, and the filename.
–u Forces spell to accept any word that is in all uppercase. spell assumes
that such words are acronyms.
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