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  • Hi cas, tested your code but the file comes out untouched Commented May 12, 2016 at 15:26
  • Try the updated version. The first had two problems - 1. aspell reads from stdin, not a file 2. grep -v would never have done what you want, it would have removed the entire line on any match, not just the matching word. Commented May 13, 2016 at 0:01
  • Updated version just strips words but is ripping apart some words that are contained inside too: vg. citizenship would be converted to citizen if ship is not in dictionnary. That is too bad Commented May 13, 2016 at 11:48
  • ok, that just means the regexp needs to be further modified to have word boundary anchors....i really should have thought of that earlier. i'll update my answer. Commented May 13, 2016 at 14:24