Comments on: A console spellchecker and dictionary

By: A console goodie grab bag « Motho ke motho ka botho

A console goodie grab bag « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:15:56 +0000

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By: eric

eric — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:44:45 +0000

Another useful console tool, when you’re looking for a word, is ‘look’ (found in bsdmainutils on a Debian system) which gives you a list of words that start with a certain string.

By: Links 12/4/2010: Awn 0.4.0, VP8 Becoming Free Software | Techrights

Links 12/4/2010: Awn 0.4.0, VP8 Becoming Free Software | Techrights — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:25:36 +0000

[...] A console spellchecker and dictionary My list of stuff to write about seems to get longer and longer every day, instead of shorter and shorter. I just got done explaining four console “tools” that lack real interfaces but are still useful, and I could probably come up with three or four more posts similar to that. [...]

By: urukrama

urukrama — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:56:39 +0000

I should add that you could even use “most” as the viewer in sdcv. Just add the following to your *shrc file:

export SDCV_PAGER=most

By: urukrama

urukrama — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:54:47 +0000

For a dictionary I use sdcv, the command-line version of StarDict. It is a great application as you can use all the dictionaries and a thesaurus you would normally use in StarDict (and there are quite a few available, in multiple languages), but have no need for any graphical front-end.

http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/

By: quigybo

quigybo — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:07:28 +0000

I found this over at commandlinefu, tis pretty handy if you want to get the definition of a word but dont want to install anything. It uses google’s define: keyword

define(){ local y=”$@”;curl -sA”Opera” “http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}”|grep -Po ‘(?<=)[^/dev/null;}