Spell Repository at GitHub

I wrote this because I wanted a spell checker for my novel files.

spell [-v] [-x] [-d <dct>]... [-w <dict_ext>]... [-e <text_ext>]... <input>...

spell reads words from text files and checks them against words in dictionary files.

The following arguments may be provided:

-d <dictionary_name> : add a dictionary name or directory to search

for directory names. If a directory name is entered files with

extensions defined by -w arguments will be loaded. Dictonary names

may also be defined using the SPELL_DICTIONARIES environment variable.

-w <dictonary_extension> : Specify an extension for dictionary files.

You may specify multiple -w arguments. This is used when a directory

name is specified by a -d argument. If no extensions are provided

the default dictionary extension is "dict".

-e <text_extension> : specify an extension for text files.

You may specify multiple -e arguments. This is used when a directory

name is specified as an input file argument. If no extensions are

provided the default text file extension is "txt".

-v : verbose mode - show dictionaries and filenames as they are

processed.

-x : no run - show which dictionary and input files will be processed.

-c : no env - do not load dictionaries from SPELL_DICTIONARIES

-t : do not show lines containing mispelled words - no text

-n : Show near matches - words that are similar but not exactly in

a dictionary.

-h or -?: show this help

input : All arguments following flags are taken as input files

to process.

The SPELL_DICTIONARIES environment variable can be used to specify which

dictionary files to read. Dictionary files and directories are separated by colon characters.

The current value of SPELL_DICTIONARIES is "/Users/daniel/dictionaries"

Words must start with a letter and may only contain letters or the following other characters: _'