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Shell script to look up words at dictionary.com from the command line (See related posts)

The following will look up a word on dictionary.com from the command line, where $1 is the word you want to look up, entered in as a parameter on the command line. (Lynx is a text-based browser that handles the html-to-text conversion for us.)

#!/bin/sh 
lynx -dump -nolist -pseudo_inlines                \
  'http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q='$1'&r=67'  \
  | tail -n +13 | less -r
to shell dictionary lynx by madphilosopher on Wed Nov 09 00:54:19 -0500 2005

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