[LBo] Re: 3.3.3.4.1 General line filtering

Eric Archer ericarcher at aol.com
Tue Nov 14 02:31:37 CET 2006


Stefan Waidele wrote:
> Howard Rosen schrieb:
>> I modified my grep to look for penguin/pinguin spelling as one or the
>> other.
> 
> Being picky:
> You used it. I don't think you needed to MODIFY it, did you?
> :)
> 
> There is more than one way to do it:
> stw at laptop:~$ echo "pinguin" | aspell -l en_us --sug-mode=slow -a
> will produce a list of suggested corrections, including the correct
> "penguin".
> 
> Stefan


I think I understand this much:
"echo "pinguin" | aspell -l" means to send pinguin to aspell.
Reading from the command 'aspell --help' I learned that "en_us" means
the dictionary to use.
Also that " --sug-mode=" means suggestion mode.
I can't seem to find what "slow -a" means or does.

Thanks



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