http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:21:23 GMT DZone Snippets: lynx code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/875 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.) <br /> <br /><code> <br />#!/bin/sh <br />lynx -dump -nolist -pseudo_inlines \ <br /> 'http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q='$1'&r=67' \ <br /> | tail -n +13 | less -r <br /></code> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:54:19 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/875 madphilosopher (Darren Paul Griffith)