spellintian - simple spellchecker based on Lintian's data files

Authors

       Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (wrote the manpage)

       Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> (wrote the program)

Lintian v2.121.2ubuntu1.1                          2025-05-02                                     SPELLINTIAN(1)

Description

       The spellintian command parses one or more text files for spelling mistakes.  It uses the same spellcheck
       algorithm and data set as lintian.

       If no file is specified on the command line, this command expects its input on stdin.

Name

       spellintian - simple spellchecker based on Lintian's data files

Options

--picky
           Also  use  the  "picky"  data set on top of the regular spelling data set.  The "picky" data set also
           includes a lot of capitalization related rules (like spelling "Debian" with an uppercase "D").

           Note however that these checks can have false positives.  As an example, consider the following those
           uses of Python "the python binary" (e.g. /usr/bin/python) and "the  Python  language".   The  --picky
           option will unconditionally flag the use of "python" in the first case as bad despite being correct.

       -h, --help
           Display usage information and exit.

       --version
           Print a version banner and exit.