ci: add spellcheck.dic validation (#7062)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1132,8 +1132,25 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Make sure dictionary words are sorted and unique
         run: |
-          # `sed` removes the first line (number of words) and
-          # the last line (new line).
+          FILE="spellcheck.dic"
+
+          # Verify the first line is an integer.
+          first_line=$(head -n 1 "$FILE")
+          if ! [[ "$first_line" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+            echo "Error: The first line of $FILE must be an integer, but got: '$first_line'"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          expected_count="$first_line"
+
+          # Check that the number of lines matches the integer.
+          # xargs (with no arguments) will strip leading/trailing whitespacefrom wc's output.
+          actual_count=$(sed '1d' "$FILE" | wc -l | xargs)
+          if [ "$expected_count" -ne "$actual_count" ]; then
+            echo "Error: The number of lines ($actual_count) does not match $expected_count."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # `sed` removes the first line (number of words).
           #
           # `sort` makes sure everything in between is sorted
           # and contains no duplicates.
@@ -1143,10 +1160,10 @@ jobs:
           # environments.
 
           (
-            sed '1d; $d' spellcheck.dic | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 sort -uc
+            sed '1d' $FILE | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 sort -uc
           ) || {
             echo "Dictionary is not in sorted order. Correct order is:"
-            LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 sort -u <(sed '1d; $d' spellcheck.dic)
+            LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 sort -u <(sed '1d' $FILE)
             false
           }
       - name: Run cargo-spellcheck

spellcheck.dic

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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+299
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