If your anything like myself, I find I use google as a spellchecker more often then anything else, however having to wait for firefox to load when I’m trying to type in irc and don’t know the spelling of a word takes up alot of my time and slows the conversation down as well.

A great post from Stormdragon has shown me a great and easy way to do this using a program called hunspell.

Following most of his steps you can do this as well on any debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint pc.

First install hunspell and it’s english library.

then cd over to your ~/bin/ directory

create and edit a file named “spellcheck”

Enter in the following script

then save and close gedit.

Now we need to make the file executable

Then just close and reopen your terminal of choice (I prefer terminator myself) and try out your new spellchecker!

Correctly spelled words will just respond with an “*” if a word is misspelled it will offer you suggestions! Just that easy! Yea BASH!