v04i111: A short spelling check script

[Badri Lokanathan]

Posting-number: Volume 4, Issue 111
Submitted-by: "Badri Lokanathan" <badri at ur-valhalla.UUCP>
Archive-name: spell_check.sh

I needed a general purpose spelling checker: spell is inconvenient 
in the sense that it only prints words that are wrong. So if you
pipe your text (say within vi) through spell, guess what - you are left
with just the mispelt words. So I came up with the following shell
script, based on spell, that works nicely.

NOTE: In case the sed script gets mauled on the way, the [] brackets
enclose a space and a tab. 

----Cut here ---------%< SH SCRIPT FOLLOWS  -------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
############################################################################
#	A sh script to allow spelling checks either in vi or stand alone   #
#	Usage: spell_check < file or within vi,				   #
#		!}spell_check		or				   #
#		:(addressed lines)!spell_check				   #
#									   #
#       The wrongly spelt words will be surrounded by ###bad-word###       #
#	WARNING: Do not try and sell this tiny shell script to some        #
#       poor sucker!							   #
#	Badri Lokanathan, 30 September 1988                                #
############################################################################
doc=/tmp/splchk.$$
scr=/tmp/sedscr.$$

trap 'rm -f $doc $scr; exit 1' 1 2 15
cat > $doc
spell < $doc |
	sed -e 's/^/s;\\([ 	][ 	]*\\)\\(/
		s/$/\\)\\([ 	][ 	]*\\);\\1###\\2###\\3;g/' > $scr
sed -f $scr $doc
rm -f $doc $scr
-- 
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