Checks a list of words against one or many english dictionaries to see if the words exists in the dictionaries.
./Check4KnownWords.pl --dictionary=us --dictionary=gb --file=words1.txt --file=words2.txt
Options:
--help Brief help message.
--man Full documentation.
--file File name containing the list of words (one word per line).
Option be used multiple times
--dictionary Choose which dictionaries to query:
au = Australian
ca = Canadian
gb = British
gbize = British dictionary with -ize endings instead of
-ise such as characterized rather than
characterised.
Option be used multiple times
A perl script which will loop through lists of words provided in files against one or more english dictionaries. If there is a match, the word is printed onto the screen.
Print a brief help message and exits.
Prints the manual page and exits.
Dictionary type which can be one of the following: au for Australian dictionary ca for Canadian dictionary gb for British dictionary gbize for British with -ize rather than -ise word endings us for US dictionary
The path of the txt file that contains a list of words
In order to install and run this script you will need the following:
- A mac or a linux machine.
- Git installed (Mac users see the Mac users section below).
- Git-lfs (https://git-lfs.github.com) installed.
- Must have perl ≥ 5.20.0.
If you haven't install git or xcode and you initiate a git clone, your mac
may ask you to install xcode. Please install this app and try to git clone
once again.
To install this command line tool, clone this project into your directory of choice:
git clone https://github.com/HGNC/Check4KnownWords.gitOnce cloned you then need to run the install script:
./install.shThe install script will download all the required modules needed for the script and will test the script. Once successfully install you may use the script as described above.