NAME¶

spell - GNU spell, a Unix spell emulator

SYNOPSIS¶

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

Ignored; for compatibility.

SEE ALSO¶

The programs are documented fully by GNU Spell, a clone of Unix `spell', available via the Info system.

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.