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This article mainly explains how to query the dictionary under the Linux command line. Interested friends may wish to have a look at it. The method introduced in this paper is simple, fast and practical. Let's let the editor take you to learn how to query the dictionary under the Linux command line.

First of all, you need to set dictd locally. Dictd is a dictionary database server. It allows you to access online dictionaries. But wait a minute, aren't we going to use it offline? This is why we want to install it locally. It comes with a command line client.

To install on Ubuntu or Debian, you need to type:

$sudo apt-get install dictd

This is very simple. Now you need to install the dictionary you use. Dictd automatically reloads its database after each dictionary plug-in is installed. Let's install an English dictionary and an English synonym dictionary.

Enter:

$sudo apt-get install dict-gcide $sudo apt-get install dict-moby-thesaurus

If you want to query other languages that you can query, you can type:

$sudo apt-cache search "dict package"

This will list something like this:

Dict-freedict-eng-ara-Dict package for English-Arabic Freedict dictionary dict-freedict-eng-cro-Dict package for English-Croatian Freedict dictionary dict-freedict-eng-cze-Dict package for English-Czech Freedict dictionary dict-freedict-eng-deu-Dict package for English-German Freedict dictionary dict-freedict-eng-fra-Dict package for English-French Freedict dictionary

Now that you have successfully installed dictd, you can look up the dictionary.

First, let's check if the dictd service is running and what databases are installed:

$dict-I

Sample output:

Dictd 1.12.0/rf on Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae On my_host: up 95.000, 2 forks (75.8/hour) Database Headwords Index Data Uncompressed gcide 203645 3859 kB 12 MB 38 MB moby-thesaurus 30263 528 kB 10 MB 28 MB

In order to query a word, you can specify the dictionary to query. Let's look up the English one dictionary (gcid):

$dict-d gcide [the word you want to look up]

If you do not use the-d parameter, dictd will search all installation dictionaries and return matching results.

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