Checking your spelling

Although Unix doesn't have a very good dictionary at its disposal, it can check the spelling of your files.

The syntax for the spell command is

spell filename

For example, the command spell my_speech would list all the words in the file that weren't in the Unix dictionary.

unity% spell my_speech
accoutrements
unity%

In the above example, the only word in the file that Unix thought was misspelled was "accoutrements."

To save the list of misspelled words instead of having them appear on the screen, see the section on redirecting commands.

Last modified July 20, 2004 by cawalker