Search a dictionary of words from the terminal using regular expressions
Requires Python3 and a modern terminal emulator that supports hyperlinks. Each result will link to an online dictionary defining the word unless you set a blank value for the argument -s.
Quickly install somewhere on your $PATH (replace ~/.local/bin with another location on your $PATH if necessary):
cp dict.py ~/.local/bin/dict
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/dict
dict ^hel
By default it uses the word list from /usr/share/dict/words, but if you have
another, it can be configured to use something else.
usage: dict [-h] [-i] [--allow-proper-nouns] [--allow-plurals] [-d DICT]
[-s SEARCH]
pattern
Search a dictionary of words from the terminal using regular expressions.
positional arguments:
pattern A regular expression defining the words you want to
match
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i, --case-insensitive
Perform a case insensitive search
--allow-proper-nouns Include proper nouns (beginnig with capital letter) if
any exist in the dictionary
--allow-plurals Include words ending in apostrophe-s if any exist in
the dictionary
-d DICT, --dict DICT Manually specify a file to search
-s SEARCH, --search SEARCH
Online dictionary search format for embedded URLs.
Replaces %s in format with matched word. Leave blank
to disable embedded URL.
