Simple script for spelling correction from a file

README.md

This scripts use LanguageTool for english spelling you can change it if you want to

This scripts also use Pando please make sure installing it before continue

1. Copy the script to your bin directory, on mine is called spelling
2. sudo chmod 755 FILENAME
3. Use it :)

read -e -p "Which file? " file
cp $file backup_$file
echo "creating backup file"
pandoc $backup_$file -f markdown -t plain -o interpretation.txt
echo "interpretation created"
echo "contacting Language Tool, please wait "
plain=`cat interpretation.txt`
curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --header 'Accept: application/json' --data-urlencode "text=$plain" -d 'language=en-US&enabledOnly=false' 'https://languagetool.org/api/v2/check' -o spelling_errors.json
rm interpretation.txt
echo "interpretation file cleaned"
rm backup_$file
echo "backup file cleanded"
echo "opening results"
open spelling_errors.json