Uses www.thesaurus.com a command-line thesaurus tool

thes

#!/bin/bash

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### T. Ravalde
### Last edited: 2016/05/17
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# Command line thesaurus based on code from http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/cmdline_thesaurus.htm

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## SETUP AND USAGE (simple):

##	- Download this script, and save inside the directory in which you are working
##	- At the command line, navigate to within this directory, and type './thes <word>', where <word> is the word you want to look up. E.g. './thes differential'.
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## SETUP AND USAGE (advanced -- can be used from any location on the computer):

##	- Store in a location which is known by your $PATH
##	- From any directory at the command line, type 'thes <word>', where <word> is the word you want to look up. E.g. 'thes differential'.
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## Code
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BROWSER="lynx -source"
WEBSITE="http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/$1"
HTML2TEXT="html2text -style compact"

if test $1; then 
    ${BROWSER} ${WEBSITE} | ${HTML2TEXT} | sed -n '/Synonyms for/,/Antonyms for/p' | sed 's/star//g' | sed '1,2d' | head -n -1 | awk '{print $2}' | sed ':a;{N;s/\n/, /};ba'
else 
    echo "Usage: $0 word" 
    exit 1 
fi