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