File: ndict.sh
   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 
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  24 
  25 
  26 # ndict [words...]
  27 #
  28 # Nice DICTionary lookups words locally using the `dict` tool. If that isn't
  29 # installed, it falls back to using `curl` and the online english dictionaries
  30 # from dict://dict.org (website https://dict.org) otherwise.
  31 
  32 
  33 case "$1" in
  34     -h|--h|-help|--help)
  35         awk '/^# +ndict /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0"
  36         exit 0
  37     ;;
  38 esac
  39 
  40 [ "$1" = '--' ] && shift
  41 
  42 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  43     awk '/^# +ndict /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0"
  44     exit 0
  45 fi
  46 
  47 gap=0
  48 options='-MKiCRS'
  49 if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
  50     options='--header=1 -MKiCRS'
  51 fi
  52 
  53 local_dict=0
  54 if command -v dict > /dev/null; then
  55     local_dict=1
  56 fi
  57 
  58 for word in "$@"; do
  59     [ "${gap}" -gt 0 ] && printf "\n"
  60     gap=1
  61     printf "\e[7m%-80s\e[0m\n" "${word}"
  62     if [ "${local_dict}" -eq 1 ]; then
  63         if dict "${word}" 2> /dev/null; then
  64             continue
  65         fi
  66     fi
  67     curl --silent --show-error "dict://dict.org/d:${word}" 2>&1 | grep '^ '
  68 done | { less ${options} 2> /dev/null || less -RIMS 2> /dev/null || cat; }