NAME

typo − find possible typographical errors

SYNOPSIS

typo [ −n ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

Typo hunts through a document for unusual words, typographic errors, and hapax legomena and prints them on the standard output. 

The words used in the document are printed out in decreasing order of peculiarity along with an index of peculiarity.  An index of 10 or more is considered peculiar.  Printing of certain very common English words is suppressed. 

The statistics for judging words are taken from the document itself, with some help from known statistics of English.  The −n option suppresses the help from English and should be used if the document is written in, for example, Urdu. 

Troff(1) control lines are ignored. Quote marks, vertical bars, hyphens, and ampersands within words are equivalent to spaces. Words hyphenated across lines are put back together.

FILES

/tmp/ttmp?? 
/usr/lib/salt
/usr/lib/w2006

SEE ALSO

spell(1). 

May 16, 1980  —  Obsolescent