Offline English and DRAE dictionaries for the terminal

I have wanted to post how to check words from the console for a long time, but Elav forward.

I briefly quote the phrase of Elav's English teacher who shared with us in her post […] When you don't know a word in English, look it up in an English dictionary, not in a translator […]

In this post we will use an application called sdcv, which is a command line interface to the popular (currently unsupported) StarDict application. Of course, those who so wish can install their respective graphical interface. In addition I have uploaded some dictionaries so that they do not take long to find them and can install them quickly.

What I like about this application is that it shows you the definitions of all the available dictionaries, so you can have the definition of several dictionaries and the equivalent word in other languages ​​or only in another, depending on how it is configured.

Dictionaries included:

English:

• Oxford
• WordNet

Spanish:

• Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE)

Bilingual:

• Spanish English
• English Spanish

Sdcv installation

Gentoo:

emerge sdcv
I didn't need to move him to the USEs and he was installed shortly. Of course, the issue of USEs is highly variable.

Slackware:

Slackbuild available, http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/misc/sdcv/. I installed it successfully with sbopkg, I didn't need to look for additional dependencies.

Arch:

pacman -S sdcv

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install sdcv

For other distributions it is similar, for example in Fedora it would be yum install sdcv, in opensuse zypper in sdcvEtc. ...

Installing the dictionaries:

cd && wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70368222/dics.tar.gz
mkdir -p /usr/share/stardict/dic
cd /usr/share/stardict/dic
sudo tar -xvzf dics.tar.gz

Now they have these dictionaries installed.

Usage and syntax

The simplest way to use it is by typing sdcv and the words to query, for example:

sdcv hello world

Usage: sdcv [OPTIONS] words
-h, --help display this help and exit
-v, --version display version information and exit
-l, --list-dicts display list of available dictionaries and exit
-u, --use-dict bookname for search use only dictionary with this bookname
-n, --non-interactive for use in scripts
–Utf8-output output must be in utf8
–Utf8-input input of sdcv in utf8
–Data-dir path / to / dir use this directory as path to stardict data directory