www.unnionline.com » Dictionary http://www.unnionline.com/blog Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:49:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 A Simple Script To Get A Terminal Dictionary http://www.unnionline.com/blog/2009/06/a-simple-script-to-get-a-terminal-dictionary/ http://www.unnionline.com/blog/2009/06/a-simple-script-to-get-a-terminal-dictionary/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:50:45 +0000 cbaunni http://www.unnionline.com/blog/?p=115 First, make sure that you have the Lynx web browser:

sudo apt-get install lynx

Now, make the following script:

#!/bin/sh

lynx -dump "http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=$1" | grep -B 1000 References | grep -A 1000 relations | less

Now you can define any word from the terminal. For example, suppose I want to know the definition of ‘psychoanalysis’, I can simply run:

./define psychoanalysis

and get the definition printed out.

It’s nothing fancy; just grabs the output from an online dictionary and spits it out to the terminal, but I find it to be very useful.

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