Whitaker's Online Dictionary Commandline Unix Script

[bathtime]

This is an extremely simple script that runs in Linux terminal. It grabs your word and opens a URL to Whitaker's Latin Dictionary to fetch it. No install is required.

latin.sh

#!/bin/sh
 
URL="http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wordz.pl?keyword=$1"
 
wget -q -O- "$URL" | awk 'NR>3 {print prev} {prev = $0}' | grep -o '[^,]*$'

Grant executable permissions:

$ chmod +x latin.sh

Run and search for amo:

$ ./latin amo

Result:

am.o                V      1 1 PRES ACTIVE  IND 1 S   
amatus  V  [XXXAO] 
like; fall in love with; be fond of; have a tendency to;

I'll be taking a look at perhaps making Perseus do the same.

Enjoy!

 

[bathtime]

Okay, here is the first part of Perseus done:

It will grab the different definitions and the forms of the word searched:

perseus

#!/bin/sh
 
URL="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=$1&la=la"
 
wFIN='<h4 class="la">'
wFOUT='</h4>'
 
wDefIn='<span class="lemma_definition">'
wDefOut='</span>'
 
wFormIn='<td class="la">'$1'</td>'
wFormOut='<td style="font-size: x-small">'
 
wget -q -O- "$URL" | mawk -v vDefIn="$wDefIn" -v vDefOut="$wDefOut" -v vFormIn="$wFormIn" -v vFormOut="$wFormOut" -v vWFIN="$wFIN" -v vWFOUT="$wFOUT" \
'$0 ~ vWFIN,$0 ~ vWFOUT {printf "\n[" substr($0,18, length($0)-22)"]"}   $0 ~ vDefIn,$0 ~ vDefOut {{ if (!/>/) {{$1=$1}1; print " "$0;} }}   $0 ~ vFormIn,$0 ~ vFormOut {{ if (!/td /) {{$1=$1}1;   $0=substr($0,5, length($0)-9); print "-"$0;   } } }'
 
echo

Program in action:

$ ./perseus cum
 
[Cos2] Apelles
-noun sg fem acc
-noun pl fem gen poetic
 
[Cum2] when, at the time when
-prep indeclform
-conj indeclform
 
[cos] a flint-stone, whetstone, grindstone
-noun sg fem acc
-noun pl fem gen poetic
 
[cum] with, together with, in the company of, in connection with, along with, together, and
-prep indeclform
-conj indeclform
 
$