Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal)
For example, to spellcheck the file letter.txt
run:
$ aspell check letter.txt
The shell (a.k.a terminal) will display an interactive screen suggesting corrections. You can choose to ignore the highlighted word, accept a suggestion et cetera.
To learn more about aspell
, run $ man aspell
in your shell.
You might notice that when you spellcheck and modify a file, aspell
creates a backup of that file by making a copy and appending .bak
to the file name. To tell aspell
not to create a backup file, add the option -x
to the command.
aspell
is copyleft-licensed and maintained by Kevin Atkinson.
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I do self-funded research and I'm writing a book.
> What's the book about?
About technologies and epistemology.
Meaning, technologies can foster agency. No doubt. But I am also asking:
Can technologies make us blind?
I posted a summary of the prologue on the homepage: https://yctct.com/
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