shdic

Minimalistic console dictionary using only shell and UNIX command line utilities.

Script uses a simple custom dictionary format where each entry is defined on a separate line so that look (binary search) can be used. Pattern-based search using grep is also supported. Results are displayed using less with highlighted search pattern.

Installation

1. cp bin/shdic.sh ~/bin/
2. Create an empty folder ~/.local/share/shdic and add dictionaries as described below.

Usage

Conversion of dictionaries

• Convert dictionary from tei format (http://freedict.org/): shdic.sh convert_tei <dictionary>.tei ~/.local/share/shdic/<dictionary>.

• Convert dictionary from dictd format (http://mueller-dict.sourceforge.net/): shdic.sh convert_mueller <dictionary>.dict.dz ~/.local/share/shdic/<dictionary>.

Search

• Match a word exactly: shdic.sh <dictionary> exactmatch <word>, where <dictionary> is a filename in ~/.local/share/shdic
• Match words using a pattern: shdic.sh <dictionary> wordsearch <pattern>
• Search for a given pattern everywhere: shdic.sh <dictionary> fullsearch <pattern>

If command or both command and dictionary are omitted -- the defaults specified in shdic.sh are used.