Spell checking a file using command line, non-interactively

Question

I have a large text file, containing many miss/bad-spelled English words. I'm looking for a way to edit this file using a command-line spell checker in Linux. I found some ways to do this, But according to my searches all of them work in an interactive manner. I mean, seeing a miss/bad-spelled word, they suggest some corrections to the user and he/she should choose one of them. Since my file is rather large, and contains many wrong words, I can't edit it in this manner. I am looking for a way to tell the spell-checker that replace all the wrong words using the first candidate. Is there any way to do this? does (a/hun)spell have any option for doing so?

Regards.

Answer 1

If you don't need it to replace every wrong word, but simply point out the errors and print suggestions in a non-interactive manner, you can use ispell:

$ ispell -a < file.txt | grep ^\& > errors.txt

I'm unfortunately not aware of any standard Linux utility that does what you're requesting from the command line, although the emacs suggestion in the comments above comes close.