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Fun with scripting

I was reading through the latest edition of Linux Format last night, and I ran across a handy little shell script for Linux that works with KDE really well. It’s a one-click dictionary lookup. Heres the code:


#!/bin/bash
NAME=`dcop klipper klipper getClipboardHistoryItem 0`
konqueror http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=$NAME

Save this as ‘dictionary.sh’ someplace in your home directory, make it executalble and create a link on your desktop. Highlight a word somewhere and click the link, and it will open Konqueror up and get the definition for you. The sheer simplicity of this amazes me.

Change the http:// link to thesaurus.reference.com for another good script.

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