#!/bin/ksh # This is a korn shell script for accessing a machine readable # dictionary # More information about script programming in UNIX can be found in # ... # The input of this script is a string which should be specified on # the command line # 960523 Erik TKS # Dictionary location; replace this with your own dictionary DICTIONARY="/usr/users/staff/erikt/P/dl96/dictionary" # source language specification in field names LANGUAGE="ENG" # target language specification in field names TARGET="SWE" # define TMPDIR if it is not already defined if [ -z "$TMPDIR" ] then TMPDIR="/tmp" fi # define temporary file TMPFILE="$TMPDIR/searchScript.$$.html" # make sure that the temporary file will be removed even in case of a crash trap "/bin/rm -f $TMPFILE" 0 1 2 3 9 # Make initial part of html file echo " Query result

Query result

" > $TMPFILE # SEARCH PART # convert options to variable contents while [ -n "$1" ] do case $1 in # example option; replace by your own and add others -s) SUMMARY="true" ;; # this one defines the search string: no change necessary *) SEARCHSTRING="$1" ;; esac shift done CASESENSITIVE="no" # Do we have a search string? if [ -z "$SEARCHSTRING" ] then echo "No search string specified" >> $TMPFILE else # put every field of the dictionary on one line ## first remove the strings after # sed 's/#.*$//' $DICTIONARY |\ ## then replace the empty lines by } sed 's/^ *$/{/' |\ ## then replace the newlines by } tr '\012' '}' |\ ## replace the inserted { by new lines tr '{' '\012' |\ # Do we need to search case sensitive? if [ "$CASESENSITIVE" = "yes" ] then ## case sensitive search required grep "${LANGUAGE}.WORD: *$SEARCHSTRING *}" else ## case insensitive search required: use -i option grep -i "${LANGUAGE}.WORD: *$SEARCHSTRING *}" fi|\ # put a paragraph tag in front of each line sed 's/^/

/' |\ # put word in bold sed 's/${LANGUAGE}.WORD: \([^}]*\)}/

\1<\/b>}/g'|\ # at this point you have the entries you are looking for with all # the file names. Here you should add sed commands to change the # output to the format you want it to be by adding html tags or # optionally removing some fields. # # replace all lexical field names by

# sed 's/[A-Z\.]*: *//g' |\ # replace end of lines } by a
sed 's/}/
}/g' |\ tr '}' '\012' |\ # convert characters to html codes htmlize >> $TMPFILE fi # print final part of page echo "

`date`
" >> $TMPFILE # show the result with lynx (change browser if the new one starts fast enough) netscape $TMPFILE # remove temporary file /bin/rm $TMPFILE