Manual: spellintian

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NAME
       spellintian - simple spellchecker based on Lintian's data files

SYNOPSIS
       spellintian [--picky] [text-file...]

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.

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.

SEE ALSO
       lintian(1)

AUTHORS
       Niels Thykier  (wrote the manpage)

       Jakub Wilk  (wrote the program)

Lintian v2.129.0ubuntu2					 2026-04-10					      SPELLINTIAN(1)