spell check
 

i have a file called file1 and i want to check the spelling of its contents

i wrote
but i got error as spell command not found

i am using fedora 12

is there any other command for this

Try and install the package which provides the 'spell' command, then run . Also consider the 'aspell' command.

spell was not working
so i did
its working nicely

but i want to redirect output of this to a file named result

so i did
i didn't get any error but it was not redirected to the file result

is there any other method to do this

What does it do when you type 'ispell filename'? Does it pop up an ncurses interface (ie. an interactive interface made out of characters, on the terminal) or just print out normal output, returning to a prompt?

it shows interactive interface to correct the spellings

Right, that is why you can't get any output to the pipe - I don't know the ins and outs of it, but if you've got an interactive interface, then it doesn't output stuff in a way that you can redirect to a file. You should be able to run:

EDIT: To remove duplicates, use

Hope this helps,

hii Snark1994

wht is this list of ispell list


is it the filename???

No, "ispell list" is the command, which prints out a list of the words in the file which are spelt wrong :)