Name

spell [files] — aspell

Synopsis

/usr/bin stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version

The spell command prints all words in the given files that are misspelled, according to its dictionary. It’s the same as:

$ cat files | aspell -l | sort -u

If no files are supplied, spell reads from standard input.

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