A tiny command line script to check the spelling of text on macOS
- Uses native spell-checking service built into macOS
- Implemented as a single file shell script (only 62 lines)
- macOS
- Swift
git clone [email protected]:Tinder/spellcheck-cli.git
cd spellcheck-cli
make install
echo "This sentance has two mispelled words." | spellcheck
Output:
sentance -> sentence
mispelled -> misspelled dispelled
Provide the --json argument to format output as JSON.
echo "This sentance has two mispelled words." | spellcheck --json
Output:
[
{
"word" : "sentance",
"guesses" : [
"sentence"
]
},
{
"word" : "mispelled",
"guesses" : [
"misspelled",
"dispelled"
]
}
]
Compare the following results of using en (English) versus es (Spanish) to see how the language choice affects the word guesses.
English
echo "lllamo" | spellcheck --language en
Output:
lllamo -> llama
Spanish
echo "lllamo" | spellcheck --language es
Output:
lllamo -> llamó llamo
To output the list of available languages:
spellcheck --help
The SPELLCHECK_CLI_LANGUAGE environment variable may be set to specify the language.
While interest in contributing to this project is appreciated, it has been open sourced solely for the purpose of sharing with the community. This means we are unable to accept outside contributions at this time and pull requests will not be reviewed or merged. To report a security concern or vulnerability, please submit a GitHub issue.
Licensed under the Match Group Modified 3-Clause BSD License.