07-05-2015
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Why? The GNU utilities are so ubiquity that chances are that it would work for the OP as well as for anyone searching how to do something similar. In fact, you have used the GNU date all this time, without knowing you could have been using another crippled version.
I think this is a fair question, although I risk taking us a long way off topic here
The thing to remember is that most Unix is still not Linux and that many Unixes that are not Linux do not implement GNU versions of the commands by default. One reason that I could suggest (I don't know for sure) is that not all Unix is free and therefor would clash with the GPL.
If you can solve something for
every platform, then wonderful!
If you can solve something for
most platforms, then that's still pretty good
If you
have to solve something for a small number of platforms, then OK, but you should get to this conclusion as a last resort.
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SPELL(1) General Commands Manual SPELL(1)
NAME
spell - GNU spell, a Unix spell emulator
SYNOPSIS
spell [options] files ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the spell command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used
by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
spell is a program that emulates the traditional Unix spell command by calling the Ispell utility.
It is a spell checking program which prints each misspelled word on a line of its own.
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options are included
below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-I, --ispell-version
Print Ispell's version.
-V, --version
Print the version number.
-b, --british
Use the British dictionary.
-d, --dictionary=FILE
Use FILE to look up words.
-h, --help
Print a summary of the options.
-i, --ispell=PROGRAM
Calls PROGRAM as Ispell.
-D, --ispell-dictionary=DICTIONARY
Use the named DICTIONARY to look up words.
-l, --all-chains
Ignored; for compatibility.
-n, --number
Print line numbers before lines.
-o, --print-file-name
Print file names before lines.
-s, --stop-list=FILE
Ignored; for compatibility.
-v, --verbose
Print words not literally found.
-x, --print-stems
Ignored; for compatibility.
SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by GNU Spell, a clone of Unix `spell', available via the Info system.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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