Ever felt an overwhelming urge to use words as command line arguments? Neither have I...but here's a script to find valid commands like "ls -chlorofluorocarbons" or "ls -Spank" anyway! Requires aspell.

wordparam.sh

#!/bin/bash

([ -z "$1" ] || [ -n "$2" ]) && cat <<EOF && exit 1
wordparam: Find words you can make with the short parameters of commands.
Author: Matthew (Archenoth) MacLean

Usage: "$0 <command>"
EOF

man $1 &>/dev/null || {
    echo "Cannot find manpage for $1"
    exit 1
}

echo "Generating for $1..."
aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand | \
    grep -e "$(echo "["$(for i in $(man $1 | grep -oe '\s-[a-Z]' | sort | uniq | cut -d'-' -f2); do echo -n $i; done)"]*")" -o | sort | uniq | \
    less