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From: Lorenzo Bolla <lbolla@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:42:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80c99e790907240942u16ea980ckfc76938412c8e493@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A69DDF6.9020108@proweb.co.uk>

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Unfortunately, this picks up some ads!

$> odict simple
- 9 dictionary results
Simply
Unique European holiday properties. Great holidays off the beaten
track
www.simplytravel.co.uk
Simple Information
Find Free Reference & Encyclopedia Articles Quickly.
Reference.com/simple

etc etc

nice script, though!
L.


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:14 PM, maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:

>
>  now if somebody can create a script to lookup words in dictionary.com
>> preformatted without ads. :)
>>
>>
>>
> cat > $home/bin/rc/odict << EOF
> #!/bin/rc
>
> hget http://dictionary.com/browse/$1 | htmlfmt | awk ' /dictionary
> results/, /Cite This Source/ {print } '
> EOF
>
> chmod 755 $home/bin/rc/odict
>
> odict simple
>
>
>
>
>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-22 22:44 [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser? Jason Catena
2009-07-22 23:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-22 23:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-22 23:56   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-23  0:22   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-23  0:47   ` Jason Catena
2009-07-23  9:48     ` C H Forsyth
2009-07-23 10:16       ` [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern Richard Miller
2009-07-23 23:49         ` Fernan Bolando
2009-07-23 23:57           ` John Floren
2009-07-24  0:08           ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-24  0:24             ` Fernan Bolando
2009-07-24  4:12               ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-24 16:14           ` maht
2009-07-24 16:41             ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 16:42             ` Lorenzo Bolla [this message]
2009-07-24 17:16             ` [9fans] (no subject) erik quanstrom
2009-07-23 13:05       ` [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser? Jason Catena
2009-07-23 13:57         ` Steve Simon
2009-07-23 14:02           ` erik quanstrom

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