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7. aspell

  1. Plain text files:

    echo 'The quick brown fox jimped over the lazy dog.' > foo.txt
    cat foo.txt
    aspell check foo.txt
    cat foo.txt

  2. HTML files:

    cat <<EOF > foo.html
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Mispelled HTML file</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <p>The quick brown fox jimped over the lazy dog.</p>
      </body>
    </html>
    EOF
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    wget https://linux-cli.fs.al/examples/lesson07/foo.html
    cat foo.html
    aspell check foo.html
    cat foo.html

    If the extenssion of the file is not .html we can force the html mode with the -H option.

    aspell --help | less
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