Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Checking Spelling with ispell

Back in Chapter 4, we showed you how to spell–check your files. Unix also offers you ispell, which gives you an interactive way of spell–checking files, similar to the spellchecking capabilities of many word processing programs (Figure 15.1).

Figure 15.1. ispell lets you interactively spell–check your files.

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To Check Spelling with ispell:

1.	ispell gudspeler At the shell prompt, type ispell followed by the name of the file you want to spellcheck. You’ll be greeted with your first (allegedly) misspelled word, the sentence the misspelling appears in, suggested words to replace them is spelled ...