hashcheck(1)

1spell(1)                         User Commands                        spell(1)
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NAME

6       spell, hashmake, spellin, hashcheck - report spelling errors
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SYNOPSIS

9       spell [-bilvx] [+ local_file] [file] ...
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DESCRIPTION

22       The spell command collects words from the named files and looks them up
23       in a spelling list. Words that neither occur among  nor  are  derivable
24       (by  applying certain inflections, prefixes, or suffixes) from words in
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28       If there are no file arguments, words to check are collected  from  the
29       standard  input.  spell  ignores most troff(1), tbl(1), and eqn(1) con‐
30       structs. Copies of all output words are accumulated in the history file
31       (spellhist),  and  a  stop  list filters out misspellings (for example,
32       their=thy−y+ier) that would otherwise pass.
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35       By default, spell (like deroff(1)) follows  chains  of  included  files
36       (.so  and  .nx  troff(1)  requests),  unless the names of such included
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40       The standard spelling list is based on many  sources,  and  while  more
41       haphazard  than  an  ordinary  dictionary,  is  also  more effective in
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43       specialized vocabularies of biology, medicine and chemistry is light.
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46       Three programs help maintain and check the hash lists used by spell:
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48       hashmake     Reads  a  list of words from the standard input and writes
49                    the corresponding nine-digit hash  code  on  the  standard
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53       spellin      Reads  n  hash  codes from the standard input and writes a
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57       hashcheck    Reads a compressed spelling_list and recreates  the  nine-
58                    digit  hash codes for all the words in it. It writes these
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OPTIONS

63       The following options are supported:
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65       -b             Check  British  spelling.  Besides  preferring   centre,
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67                      this option insists upon −ise in words like standardise.
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70       -i             Cause  deroff(1) to ignore .so  and  .nx  commands.   If
71                      deroff(1)  is  not  present  on  the  system,  then this
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75       -l             Follow the chains of all included files.
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78       -v             Print all words not literally in the spelling  list,  as
79                      well  as  plausible  derivations  from the  words in the
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83       -x             Print every plausible stem, one per line, with = preced‐
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87       +local_file    Specify  a  set  of words that are correct spellings (in
88                      addition to spell's own spelling  list)  for  each  job.
89                      local_file is the name of a user-provided file that con‐
90                      tains a sorted list of words, one per line. Words  found
91                      in  local_file  are  removed  from  spell's  output. Use
92                      sort(1) to order local_file in ASCII collating sequence.
93                      If  this  ordering  is  not  followed,  some  entries in
94                      local_file might be ignored.
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OPERANDS

98       The following operands are supported:
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100       file    A path name of a text file to check for spelling errors. If  no
101               files are named, words are collected from the standard input.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

105       See  environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
106       that affect the execution of spell: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
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EXIT STATUS

109       The following exit values are returned:
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FILES

118       D_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hlist[ab]
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120           hashed spelling lists, American & British
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123       S_SPELL=/usr/lib/spell/hstop
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ATTRIBUTES

139       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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144       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
145       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
146       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
147       │Availability                 │SUNWesu                      │
148       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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NOTES

154       spell works only on English words defined in the U.S. ASCII codeset.
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157       Because copies of all output are accumulated  in  the  spellhist  file,
158       spellhist might grow quite large and require purging.
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BUGS

161       The spelling list's coverage is uneven. New installations might wish to
162       monitor the output for several months to gather local additions.
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