Re: dictionary lookup...

[Bill Schoolcraft <bill linuxcare com>]

Arjuna Medisetti wrote:
> 
> Hi
>   Any suggestions for dictionay lookup setup in gnome2.1. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arjun.
> --

[off-topic]

Here is a little shell script I found that works out of command
line, I saved the file as "/bin/dict" and just type the
following with "dict" being the command and "answer" being the
word I want a definition for:

dict answer


==========================[snip_here]====================================
#!/bin/csh -f

set word=$1

# lynx is a text-based browser
# available free on the web/net.
lynx -cfg=/dev/null -dump "
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=${word}"; | less



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