Dictsh

An extensible dictionary/encyclopedia shell

Usage

> dictsh
dictsh (v0.01)
For help type /h
Loading plugin Wikipedia: OK
Loading plugin Altervista: OK
Loading plugin Woorden: OK
Loading plugin Duden: OK
Loading plugin TheFreeDictionary: OK
Loading plugin GoogleTranslate: OK
Loading plugin Synoniemen: OK
de - de > /h
COMMANDS

/c(hange-language) lang1 [lang2]              change languages
/s(witch)                                     switch primary and secondary languages
/m(ode) mode                                  change mode (mode has to be one of: dictionary, thesaurus, definition, encyclopedia)
/a(dd-plugin) plugin-name [plugin-arguments]  add a plugin
/r(emove-plugin) plugin-name                  remove a plugin
/d(ebug)                                      turn on debug mode
/h(elp)                                       display this text

EXAMPLES:

/c en de       sets primary language to English and secondary language to German
/c it          sets primary language to Italian
/m e           switches to encyclopedia mode
/m t           switches to thesaurus mode
/a GoogleTranslate api_key XXXX    adds 'GoogleTranslate' plugin with api key XXXX
/r Woorden        removes 'Woorden' plugin

de - de > /c de en
OK
de - en > boshaft
spitefully
de - en > überwiegend
mostly
de - en > /c nl nl
OK
nl - nl > maatschappij
de maatschappij
Uitspraak:  [matsxɑ'pɛi]Verbuigingen:  maatschappij|en (meerv.)
1)
alle mensen samen, vooral de manier waarop ze met elkaar omgaan
Voorbeelden:  `welvaartsmaatschappij`,`maatschappijkritiek`Synoniem:  samenleving
2)
groot bedrijf
Voorbeeld:  `verzekeringsmaatschappij`Synoniem:  onderneming
nl - nl > /m encyclopedia
OK
Encyclopedia (nl) > /c en
OK
Encyclopedia (en) > Alexandria
[ The wikipedia page for Alexandria in a pager ]
Encyclopedia (en) > /c de
OK
Encyclopedia (de) > Chaos Computer Club
[ The German wikipedia page for Chaos Computer Club ]

Installation

Easy way:

sudo cpanm git://github.com/larion/dictsh

Or clone the repository and install the usual way:

git clone git@github.com:larion/dictsh.git
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install

Extending the shell (for developers)

See perldoc App::Dict::Roles::Plugin for the interface. Also there are some examples under App::Dict::Plugin::* which you can use as templates for your plugins.