Maybe this? https://www.languagetool.org/ The problem with using any general purpose tool would be automation: you do not want to work through the results manually. Or maybe you could find a way to plugin to LXR or LXRng or OpenGrok. Cheers -- Rick http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20047467/how-can-i-download-source-code-from-linux-cross-reference-library-generated-by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok On May 16, 2016 12:00:02 PM EDT, linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca wrote > > > i want to run through a large source code base (think kernel-sized) >to spell check, you know, comments, strings, pretty much everything. > > any suggestions for tools and corresponding dictionaries that are >already decently set up to spell check a C language code base? > > thanks > >rday -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.