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using unix aspell on mac os x instead of unix spell, finds words not in dictionary
tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < filename.txt | aspell list --mode=none
same as:
tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < filename.txt | spell -v
sudo port install aspell
sudo port install aspell-dict-en
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