#!/bin/sh # The MIT License (MIT) # # Copyright (c) 2026 pacman64 # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # ndict [words...] # # Nice DICTionary lookups words locally using the `dict` tool. If that isn't # installed, it falls back to using `curl` and the online english dictionaries # from dict://dict.org (website https://dict.org) otherwise. case "$1" in -h|--h|-help|--help) awk '/^# +ndict /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0" exit 0 ;; esac if [ -z "$1" ]; then awk '/^# +ndict /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0" exit 0 fi gap=0 options='-MKiCRS' if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then options='--header=1 -MKiCRS' fi local_dict=0 if command -v dict > /dev/null; then local_dict=1 fi for word in "$@"; do [ "${gap}" -gt 0 ] && printf "\n" gap=1 printf "\e[7m%-80s\e[0m\n" "${word}" if [ "${local_dict}" -eq 1 ]; then dict "${word}" 2> /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then continue fi fi curl --silent --show-error "dict://dict.org/d:${word}" 2>&1 | grep '^ ' done | less ${options}