cspell-cli
Advanced tools
To check all files under the current directory, run:
npx cspell-cli --gitignore .
This repository enables using cspell as a pre-commit hook.
# .pre-commit-config.yaml
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli
rev: v8.9.0
hooks:
- id: cspell
To use a custom dictionary with the pre-commit hook, create either a cspell.config.yaml or cspell.json file in your project's root directory.
cspell.config.yaml
dictionaryDefinitions:
- name: myWords
path: ./path/to/cSpell_dict.txt
addWords: true
dictionaries:
- myWords
cSpell.json
{
"dictionaryDefinitions": [
{
"name": "myWords",
"path": "./path/to/cSpell_dict.txt",
"addWords": true
}
],
"dictionaries": ["myWords"]
}
If you installed the Code Spell Checker extension for VS Code, this can be done automatically from the command palette by running "Spell: Create a CSpell configuration file".
This repo also allows installing the cspell-cli directly from GitHub:
npm install -g git+https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli
docker run -v $PWD:/workdir ghcr.io/streetsidesoftware/cspell:latest "**"
See Extending the Docker Container to include German
cspell --help:
Usage: cspell [options] [command]
Spelling Checker for Code
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
lint [options] [globs...] Check spelling
trace [options] [words...] Trace words -- Search for words in the
configuration and dictionaries.
check [options] <files...> Spell check file(s) and display the
result. The full file is displayed in
color.
suggestions|sug [options] [words...] Spelling Suggestions for words.
link Link dictionaries and other settings to
the cspell global config.
help [command] display help for command
lint is the default command.
cspell lint --help:
Usage: cspell lint [options] [globs...] [file://<path> ...] [stdin[://<path>]]
Patterns:
- [globs...] Glob Patterns
- [stdin] Read from "stdin" assume text file.
- [stdin://<path>] Read from "stdin", use <path> for file type and config.
- [file://<path>] Check the file at <path>
Examples:
cspell . Recursively check all files.
cspell lint . The same as "cspell ."
cspell "*.js" Check all .js files in the current directory
cspell "**/*.js" Check all .js files recursively
cspell "src/**/*.js" Only check .js under src
cspell "**/*.txt" "**/*.js" Check both .js and .txt files.
cspell "**/*.{txt,js,md}" Check .txt, .js, and .md files.
cat LICENSE | cspell stdin Check stdin
cspell stdin://docs/doc.md Check stdin as if it was "./docs/doc.md"
Check spelling
Options:
-c, --config <cspell.json> Configuration file to use. By default cspell
looks for cspell.json in the current directory.
-v, --verbose Display more information about the files being
checked and the configuration.
--locale <locale> Set language locales. i.e. "en,fr" for English
and French, or "en-GB" for British English.
--language-id <file-type> Force programming language for unknown
extensions. i.e. "php" or "scala"
--words-only Only output the words not found in the
dictionaries.
-u, --unique Only output the first instance of a word not
found in the dictionaries.
-e, --exclude <glob> Exclude files matching the glob pattern. This
option can be used multiple times to add
multiple globs.
--file-list <path or stdin> Specify a list of files to be spell checked. The
list is filtered against the glob file patterns.
Note: the format is 1 file path per line.
--file [file...] Specify files to spell check. They are filtered
by the [globs...].
--no-issues Do not show the spelling errors.
--no-progress Turn off progress messages
--no-summary Turn off summary message in console.
-s, --silent Silent mode, suppress error messages.
--no-exit-code Do not return an exit code if issues are found.
--quiet Only show spelling issues or errors.
--fail-fast Exit after first file with an issue or error.
-r, --root <root folder> Root directory, defaults to current directory.
--no-relative Issues are displayed with absolute path instead
of relative to the root.
--show-context Show the surrounding text around an issue.
--show-suggestions Show spelling suggestions.
--no-show-suggestions Do not show spelling suggestions or fixes.
--no-must-find-files Do not error if no files are found.
--cache Use cache to only check changed files.
--no-cache Do not use cache.
--cache-reset Reset the cache file.
--cache-strategy <strategy> Strategy to use for detecting changed files.
(choices: "metadata", "content")
--cache-location <path> Path to the cache file or directory. (default:
".cspellcache")
--dot Include files and directories starting with `.`
(period) when matching globs.
--gitignore Ignore files matching glob patterns found in
.gitignore files.
--no-gitignore Do NOT use .gitignore files.
--gitignore-root <path> Prevent searching for .gitignore files past
root.
--validate-directives Validate in-document CSpell directives.
--no-color Turn off color.
--color Force color.
--no-default-configuration Do not load the default configuration and
dictionaries.
--debug Output information useful for debugging
cspell.json files.
--reporter <module|path> Specify one or more reporters to use.
-h, --help display help for command
More Examples:
cspell "**/*.js" --reporter @cspell/cspell-json-reporter
This will spell check all ".js" files recursively and use
"@cspell/cspell-json-reporter".
cspell . --reporter default
This will force the default reporter to be used overriding
any reporters defined in the configuration.
cspell . --reporter ./<path>/reporter.cjs
Use a custom reporter. See API for details.
cspell "*.md" --exclude CHANGELOG.md --files README.md CHANGELOG.md
Spell check only check "README.md" but NOT "CHANGELOG.md".
cspell "/*.md" --no-must-find-files --files $FILES
Only spell check the "/*.md" files in $FILES,
where $FILES is a shell variable that contains the list of files.
References:
https://cspell.org
https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell
cspell trace --help:
Usage: cspell trace [options] [words...]
Trace words -- Search for words in the configuration and dictionaries.
Options:
-c, --config <cspell.json> Configuration file to use. By default cspell
looks for cspell.json in the current directory.
--locale <locale> Set language locales. i.e. "en,fr" for English
and French, or "en-GB" for British English.
--language-id <language> Use programming language. i.e. "php" or "scala".
--allow-compound-words Turn on allowCompoundWords
--no-allow-compound-words Turn off allowCompoundWords
--ignore-case Ignore case and accents when searching for words.
--no-ignore-case Do not ignore case and accents when searching for
words.
--dictionary-path <format> Configure how to display the dictionary path.
(choices: "hide", "short", "long", "full",
default: Display most of the path.)
--stdin Read words from stdin.
--all Show all dictionaries.
--only-found Show only dictionaries that have the words.
--no-color Turn off color.
--color Force color
--no-default-configuration Do not load the default configuration and
dictionaries.
-h, --help display help for command
cspell check --help:
Usage: cspell check [options] <files...>
Spell check file(s) and display the result. The full file is displayed in
color.
Options:
-c, --config <cspell.json> Configuration file to use. By default cspell
looks for cspell.json in the current directory.
--validate-directives Validate in-document CSpell directives.
--no-validate-directives Do not validate in-document CSpell directives.
--no-color Turn off color.
--color Force color
--no-exit-code Do not return an exit code if issues are found.
--no-default-configuration Do not load the default configuration and
dictionaries.
-h, --help display help for command
cspell suggestions --help:
Usage: cspell suggestions|sug [options] [words...]
Spelling Suggestions for words.
Options:
-c, --config <cspell.json> Configuration file to use. By default
cspell looks for cspell.json in the
current directory.
--locale <locale> Set language locales. i.e. "en,fr" for
English and French, or "en-GB" for
British English.
--language-id <language> Use programming language. i.e. "php" or
"scala".
-s, --no-strict Ignore case and accents when searching
for words.
--ignore-case Alias of --no-strict.
--num-changes <number> Number of changes allowed to a word
(default: 4)
--num-suggestions <number> Number of suggestions (default: 8)
--no-include-ties Force the number of suggested to be
limited, by not including suggestions
that have the same edit cost.
--stdin Use stdin for input.
--repl REPL interface for looking up
suggestions.
-v, --verbose Show detailed output.
-d, --dictionary <dictionary name> Use the dictionary specified. Only
dictionaries specified will be used.
--dictionaries <dictionary names...> Use the dictionaries specified. Only
dictionaries specified will be used.
--no-color Turn off color.
--color Force color
-h, --help display help for command
cspell link --help:
Usage: cspell link [options] [command]
Link dictionaries and other settings to the cspell global config.
Options:
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
list|ls List currently linked configurations.
add|a <dictionaries...> Add dictionaries any other settings to the cspell
global config.
remove|r <paths...> Remove matching paths / packages from the global
config.
help [command] display help for command
The major version of cspell-cli tries to match the major version of cspell.
minor and patch versioning goes up independently from cspell. Where possible, the minor version should match cspell.
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