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Use this script to find meanings of words from bash shell. For convenience, make this script executable and add alias to file with the command `alias define='path-to-define.sh-file'`
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| wget -q -O - "http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/$1" | grep -P -o "<span class=\"DEFINITION\">(.*?)</span>" | grep -Po '(?<=href=")[^"]*' | grep -Po '=.*?$' | cut -d = -f 2 | awk '{printf "%s ",$1}' |
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