#!/bin/bash # ©2017-2018 Michael Uplawski # Use ths script at your own risk, modify it as you please. # But maybe leave the copyright-notice intact. Thank You. # --------- SOME DEFINITIONS ---------- # The Name of the dictionary: DICT_NAME='Meriam Webster http://www.meriam-webster.com' # The part of the dictionary-url which PRECEDES AN EXPRESSION to search DICT=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ # The command to extract a fragment from a page EXTR='puts $_.at_css("div#definition-wrapper")' # other dictionary #DICT_NAME='Conjugaison.com' #DICT=http://www.conjugaison.com/conjuguer.php?verbe= #EXTR='puts $_.at_xpath("//table")' # The browser to pipe the result to # BROWSER='/usr/bin/lynx' BROWSER='/usr/bin/w3m' # a temporary HTML-file FL=`mktemp --suffix=.html` # --------> ACTION <--------- # Extract the interesting part of the search result, make HTML. echo "

"$DICT_NAME"

`curl -s "$DICT""$1" | nokogiri -e "$EXTR"`" > $FL # <-------- END ACTION ---------> # Display $BROWSER $FL # remove temporary file rm -f "$FL"