What's Ubuntu's default terminal spell checker?
There's a program that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default which is run totally in the terminal and will spell check a text file. But I have trouble remembering what the program is called. What is this program, and how do I run it on ~/Documents/file
?
Ubuntu apparently comes with two spell-check programs by default:
$ apropos spell
aspell (1) - interactive spell checker
aspell-autobuildhash (8) - Autobuilding aspell hash files for some dicts
aspell-import (1) - import old personal dictionaries into GNU Aspell
enchant (1) - a spellchecker
enchant-lsmod (1) - Show information about available spell-checking module...
enchant
is also an ispell
-compatible spell-checker, and is listed in the ISO manifest, so it is installed by default.
And though it is not installed by default, Vim's full-fledged versions also support spell-checking, and do better in more complex files (for example, spell-checking only text in HTML).
The program I needed was aspell
. It's very simple to run:
aspell check ~/Documents/file
It will automatically check the file for spelling errors based on the locale set. More information about it can be found in the man pages.
Hope this helps someone!