SpacingChecker

Here is a simple bash program which checks if spacing around punctuation is respected.

Usage

$ ./check.sh language file

language can be either a shortname (see ./check.sh -l) or a language file. Language files are in the languages/ directory.

file is the file to check.

Errors will be printed as a result.

You can also use multiple files:

$ ./check.sh language file1 file2 *.txt

Example

$ ./check.sh us tests/file.txt

Looking for a language file...
Searching files corresponding to us
Loading English (US)
1:Here is an english error !

Installation

You can clone this repository and then use the script with ./check.sh:

$ git clone https://github.com/Smlep/SpacingChecker.git
$ cd SpacingChecker
$ ./check.sh us anamericanfile
...

Or you can install it globally with homebrew and then use it as spaceCheck:

$ brew tap smlep/spacingchecker
$ brew install spacingchecker
$ spaceCheck gb abritishfile
...

Options

• -h, --help display help
• -s, --silent do not write anything to standard output
• -l, --lg, --languages display available languages and their shortnames

$ ./check.sh -l

Short names for available languages:
fr: French
gb: English (GB)
it: Italian
us: English (US)

Supported languages

• French
• English
• Italian

Feel free to create a Pull Request with new languages files.

You can also create new issues for languages not done yet.

Exit status

• 0: No error found
• 1: One or more errors were found while checking
• 2: -l, -h, --lg, --help or --languages were used
• 3: An error occured which prevented checking

Misc

Make sure that grep is installed and supports -n and --colour or SpacingChecker will not work.