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#26 Shpell: An Interactive Spell-Checking Facility

Checking the spelling of something word by word is useful, but more commonly you'll want to check all of the words in a file en masse. You can do that with ispell, if you've installed it, but ispell has an interface that some people find baffling. And if you don't have ispell, many of the more rudimentary spell-checking packages don't offer much more sophistication than simple "Is this word right?" functionality. Therefore, in either case, an alternative approach to checking and fixing all of the spelling errors throughout a file might be just what you need, and it's easily accomplished with this shell script.

The Code

 #!/bin/sh # shpell - An interactive spell-checking program that lets ...