Ubuntu Manpage: codespell - detect spelling mistakes in source code

NAME

       codespell - detect spelling mistakes in source code

SYNOPSIS

       codespell [OPTIONS] [file1 file2 ... fileN]

DESCRIPTION

codespell is designed to find and fix common misspellings in text files. It is designed primarily for
checking misspelled words in source code, but it can be used with other files as well.

usage: codespell [-h] [--version] [-d] [-c] [-w] [-D DICTIONARY]

[--builtin BUILTIN-LIST] [--ignore-regex IGNORE_REGEX] [-I FILE] [-L WORDS]
[--uri-ignore-words-list WORDS] [-r REGEX] [--uri-regex URI_REGEX] [-s] [--count] [-S SKIP] [-x
FILE] [-i INTERACTIVE] [-q QUIET_LEVEL] [-e] [-f] [-H] [-A LINES] [-B LINES] [-C LINES] [--config
CONFIG] [files ...]

positional arguments:
files files or directories to check

optional arguments:
-h, --help
show this help message and exit

--version
show program's version number and exit

-d, --disable-colors
disable colors, even when printing to terminal (always set for Windows)

-c, --enable-colors
enable colors, even when not printing to terminal

-w, --write-changes
write changes in place if possible

-D DICTIONARY, --dictionary DICTIONARY
custom dictionary file that contains spelling corrections. If this flag is not specified or equals
"-" then the default dictionary is used. This option can be specified multiple times.

--builtin BUILTIN-LIST
comma-separated list of builtin dictionaries to include (when "-D -" or no "-D" is passed).
Current options are: - 'clear' for unambiguous errors - 'rare' for rare but valid words -
'informal' for making informal words more formal - 'usage' for replacing phrasing with recommended

terms - 'code' for words common to code and/or mathematics

that might be typos
- 'names' for valid proper names that might be typos - 'en-GB_to_en-US' for corrections from en-GB
to en-US The default is 'clear,rare'.

--ignore-regex IGNORE_REGEX
regular expression which is used to find patterns to ignore by treating as whitespace. When
writing regular expressions, consider ensuring there are boundary nonword chars, e.g.,
"\bmatch\b". Defaults to empty/disabled.

-I FILE, --ignore-words FILE
file that contains words which will be ignored by codespell. File must contain 1 word per line.
Words are case sensitive based on how they are written in the dictionary file

-L WORDS, --ignore-words-list WORDS
comma separated list of words to be ignored by codespell. Words are case sensitive based on how
they are written in the dictionary file

--uri-ignore-words-list WORDS
comma separated list of words to be ignored by codespell in URIs and emails only. Words are case
sensitive based on how they are written in the dictionary file. If set to "*", all misspelling in
URIs and emails will be ignored.

-r REGEX, --regex REGEX
regular expression which is used to find words. By default any alphanumeric character, the
underscore, the hyphen, and the apostrophe is used to build words. This option cannot be
specified together with --writechanges.

--uri-regex URI_REGEX
regular expression which is used to find URIs and emails. A default expression is provided.

-s, --summary
print summary of fixes

--count
print the number of errors as the last line of stderr

-S SKIP, --skip SKIP
comma-separated list of files to skip. It accepts globs as well. E.g.: if you want codespell to
skip .eps and .txt files, you'd give "*.eps,*.txt" to this option.

-x FILE, --exclude-file FILE
FILE with lines that should not be checked for errors or changed

-i INTERACTIVE, --interactive INTERACTIVE
set interactive mode when writing changes: - 0: no interactivity. - 1: ask for confirmation. -
2: ask user to choose one fix when more than one is

available.
- 3: both 1 and 2

-q QUIET_LEVEL, --quiet-level QUIET_LEVEL
bitmask that allows suppressing messages: - 0: print all messages. - 1: disable warnings about
wrong encoding. - 2: disable warnings about binary files. - 4: omit warnings about automatic
fixes that were

disabled in the dictionary.
- 8: don't print anything for non-automatic fixes. - 16: don't print the list of fixed files. As
usual with bitmasks, these levels can be combined; e.g. use 3 for levels 1+2, 7 for 1+2+4, 23 for
1+2+4+16, etc. The default mask is 2.

-e, --hard-encoding-detection
use chardet to detect the encoding of each file. This can slow down codespell, but is more
reliable in detecting encodings other than utf-8, iso8859-1, and ascii.

-f, --check-filenames
check file names as well

-H, --check-hidden
check hidden files and directories (those starting with ".") as well.

-A LINES, --after-context LINES
print LINES of trailing context

-B LINES, --before-context LINES
print LINES of leading context

-C LINES, --context LINES
print LINES of surrounding context

--config CONFIG
path to config file.

AUTHOR

       Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>

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