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Here’s a short bash script, using aspell, to spell check a word or several words from the command line. It’s simple but effective. If anyone else knows a cleaner or even simpler way, please let us know.


#!/bin/bash

echo $WORD > $TEMPFILE
aspell -c $TEMPFILE
cat $TEMPFILE
rm -f $TEMPFILE
rm -f $TEMPFILE.bak


I named this script “spell”. Simply use it like so:

$ spell reccomend


Aspell will run and you can make your changes.

reccomend

1) recommends 6) commend
2) recommend 7) recommenced
3) reckoned recommended
4) regiment 9) Redmond
5) recombined 0) rejoined
i) Ignore I) Ignore all
r) Replace R) Replace all
a) Add l) Add Lower
b) Abort x) Exit


In this case, if I type “2″, the correction will be made, aspell will exit and the spelling I chose gets printed out.

Here’s an example of how to use it with a sentence.

$ spell "I go to the storede and buy beakh clotes"


Now aspell will take you through each misspelled word. After you finish the corrections it will exit and print out the corrected sentence or series of words.

I go to the store and buy beach clothes