www.LinuxHowtos.org
edit this article
Teaser
:
Content
:
==Implementing a command line thesaurus== Many people make use of dict to lookup word definitions. (If this is new to you, try dict word). Sometimes what we need instead of a dictionary is a thesaurus. This week's tip demonstrates a script to do just that. Note: You need html2text installed before using this script. Code Listing 1: ~/bin/thes #!/bin/sh #-------- # Command line thesaurus BROWSER="/usr/bin/lynx -source" WEBSITE="http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=$1" HTML2TEXT="/usr/bin/html2text -style compact" if test $1; then ${BROWSER} ${WEBSITE} | ${HTML2TEXT} | ${PAGER} else echo "Usage: $0 word" exit 1 fi To use this script, name it thes, make it executable, and make sure that it's in your $PATH. Then, run the script followed by the word you're interested in. Code Listing 2 $ thes word From http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040531-newsletter.xml
Note: The changes you made will be manually reviewed for spam before appearing online. This might take a while.
rate this article:
current rating: average rating: 1.4 (62 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)
Your rating:
Very good (1)
Good (2)
ok (3)
average (4)
bad (5)
terrible (6)
back