WORD\-LIST\-COMPRESS
Section: Aspell Abbreviated User's Manual (1)
Updated: 2005-09-05
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NAME
word-list-compress - word list compressor/decompressor for GNU Aspell
SYNOPSIS
word-list-compress
c[
ompress] |
d[
ecompress]
DESCRIPTION
word-list-compress
compresses or decompresses sorted word lists for use with the GNU Aspell
spell checker.
COMMANDS
- -c, c, compress
-
compress the plain text word list read from standard input.
- -d, d, decompress
-
decompress the compressed word list read from standard input.
EXAMPLES
Here are a few examples of how you can use
word-list-compress
- word-list-compress d <wordlist.cwl >wordlist.txt
-
Decompress file wordlist.cwl to text file wordlist.txt
- word-list-compress c <wordlist.wl >wordlist.cwl 2>errors.txt
-
Compress wordlist.wl to wordlist.cwl and send any error messages to a
text file named errors.txt
- LC_COLLATE=C sort -u <wordlist.txt | word-list-compress c >wordlist.cwl
-
Sort a word list, then pipe it to
word-list-compress
to create a compressed binary wordlist.cwl file.
- word-list-compress d <words.cwl | aspell create master ./words.rws
-
Decompress a wordlist, then pipe it to
aspell(1)
to create a spelling list. Please check the
aspell(1)
info manual for proper usage and options.
TIPS
Word-list-compress
is best used with sorted word list type files. It is not a general
purpose compression program since the resulting files may actually
increase in size.
Word-list-compress
accepts up to 255 text characters in the range of {0x21...0xFF}. If your
word list requires a larger character set for certain languages or
longer length for multi-word, scientific, medical, technical or other
use, then it is recommended that you compress your word list using
prezip-bin(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
Word-list-compress
normally exits with a return code of 0. If it encounters an error,
a message is sent to standard error output (stderr), and
word-list-compress
exits with a non-zero return value. Error messages are listed below:
- (display help/usage message)
-
Unknown command given on the command line so
word-list-compress
displays a usage message to standard error output.
- Corrupt Input
-
This is only for the decompression command d. The input file is
of an unknown format or the input file/stream is corrupted. You may
have some valid output, but
word-list-compress
could not complete the process. If the input file is a compressed
wordlist but you have no output file, then it may be a newer
prezip-bin(1)
version of compressed file, if so, try decompressing the file with
prezip-bin(1)
instead.
- Output Data Error
-
The output is full, write protected, or has an error and can no longer
be written to.
SEE ALSO
aspell(1),
aspell-import(1),
prezip-bin(1),
run-with-aspell(1)
Aspell is fully documented in its Texinfo manual. See the
`aspell'
entry in
info
for more complete documentation.
REPORTING BUGS
For help, see the Aspell homepage at <
http://aspell.net> and send bug
reports/comments to the Aspell user list at the above address.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Aaron Lehmann <
aaronl@vitelus.com>,
Brian Nelson <
pyro@debian.org> and Jose Da Silva <
digital@joescat.com>.
Index
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- COMMANDS
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- EXAMPLES
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- TIPS
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- SEE ALSO
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- AUTHOR
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