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aspell:tldr:47bf9
aspell: List misspelled words from standard input and ignore words from personal word list.
$ cat ${filename} | aspell --personal=${personal-word-list-pws} list
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This command uses two Unix command-line utilities, cat
and aspell
, to list misspelled words in a file.
Here's the breakdown:
cat ${filename}
:cat
is a command that concatenates and displays the contents of a file.${filename}
is a placeholder for the actual name of the file. This part of the command is used to read the contents of the specified file and pass them as input to the next command.|
: This symbol represents the pipe operator, which redirects the output of the preceding command to the input of the next command.aspell
:aspell
is a command-line spell checker utility.--personal=${personal-word-list-pws}
:--personal
is an option foraspell
command, used to specify a personal word list file.${personal-word-list-pws}
is a placeholder for the actual name of the personal word list file. By including this option,aspell
will use the specified personal word list along with its default dictionaries to check for misspelled words.list
: This is anaspell
action that tells the command to list the misspelled words found in the input.
In summary, the command reads the contents of a file specified by ${filename}
, sends it to aspell
along with a personal word list file specified by ${personal-word-list-pws}
, and then aspell
lists any misspelled words it finds in the input file.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.