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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using diff for spellchecking Post 302562458 by jlam9012 on Friday 7th of October 2011 01:35:55 AM
Old 10-07-2011
Using diff for spellchecking

Hi,

I am attempting to use diff for the purpose of spell checking. Here is what I have thus far. I am using the Bourne shell (sh).

Code:
diff -i list.txt '/usr/share/dict/words'

I am comparing my list of words (list.txt) with another list (a dictionary).

Here is what is contained in list.txt:
Code:
brown
brown
brown
fjkjk
fox
fox
I
I
I
I
is
is
is
is
the
the
The
this
this
this
this
Thursday
Today

I get output like the following: (just a part of the output)

Code:
> browis
> browless
> browman
3,4c53558,75240
< brown
---
> brown-armed
> brownback
> brown-backed

I thought that the "<" meant that the word was found in my file but not in the dictionary and thus not a correctly spelled word. However, it is doing this for "brown" as well as others later down the list. I also think that the ">" means that the word is in the dictionary but not in my file, meaning just that I can ignore it. I need some way of getting words that aren't in the dictionary using the diff utility.

Thanks for your time
 

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gnome-dictionary(1)					      General Commands Manual					       gnome-dictionary(1)

NAME
gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary gnome-dictionary [options] or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu. DESCRIPTION
GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source. For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help. OPTIONS
--look-up word Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source. -s source or --source source Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings. -l or --list-sources Lists all the sources available. -n or --no-window Using this switch with the --look-up will print the definitions found on the console without launching the GUI. --help Display help information. CONFIGURATION
All the configuration is handled using GConf. AUTHOR
GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hov- inen (<hovinen@udel.edu>). Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch. This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>. SEE ALSO
dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229 gnome-utils 2.13.4 Jan 2 2005 gnome-dictionary(1)
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