NAME

       nuspell - Command-line tool for spellchecking.

SYNOPSIS

       nuspell [-d dict_NAME] [OPTION]...  [FILE]...
       nuspell -D|--help|--version

DESCRIPTION

       Check  spelling  of  each FILE.  If no FILE is specified, check standard input.  The text in the input is
       first segmented into words with an algorithm that recognizes punctuation and then each word is checked.

OPTIONS

       -d, --dictionary=di_CT
              Use di_CT dictionary.  Only one is supported.  A dictionary consists of two files with  extensions
              .dic and .aff.  The -d option accepts either dictionary name without filename extension, usually a
              language tag, or a path (with slash) to the .aff file including the filename extension.  When just
              a  name  is  given,  it will be searched among the list of dictionaries in the default directories
              (see option -D).  When a path to .aff is given, only the dictionary under the path is  considered.
              When  -d  is not present, the CLI tools tries to load a dictionary using the language tag from the
              active locale.

       -D, --list-dictionaries
              Print search paths and available dictionaries and exit.

       --encoding=ENC
              Set both input and output encoding.

       --input-encoding=ENC
              Set input encoding, default is active locale.

       --output-encoding=ENC
              Set output encoding, default is active locale.

       --help Print short help.

       --version
              Print version number.

EXIT STATUS

       Returns error if the argument syntax is invalid, if the dictionary can not be loaded  or  if  some  input
       file can not be opened.  Otherwise, spell checking has occurred and returns success.

ENVIRONMENT

       DICTIONARY
              Specify dictionary, same as option -d.

       DICPATH
              Path to additional directory to search for dictionaries.

CAVEATS

       The  CLI  tool  is primarily intended to be used interactively by human.  The input is plain text and the
       output is mostly plain text with some symbols and words that are meant to be read by  human  and  not  by
       machine.   The  format  of  the  output  is  not  strictly  defined  and  may  change,  thus  it  is  not
       machine-readable.  Other programs should use the C++ library directly which has stable API.

EXAMPLES

              nuspell -d en_US file.txt
              nuspell -d ../../subdir/di_CT.aff

REPORTING BUGS

       Bug reports: https://github.com/nuspell/nuspell/issues

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2016-2024 Nuspell authors.

SEE ALSO

       Full documentation: https://github.com/nuspell/nuspell/wiki

       Home page: http://nuspell.github.io/

AUTHORS

       Dimitrij Mijoski.

Nuspell 5.1.6                                      2024-07-03                                         NUSPELL(1)