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<hppavilion[1]> learn Svalbard is the place where Norway keeps the seeds for its pseudo-RNGs so that they can recover their language if it is ever lost.
author HackBot
date Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:45:03 +0000
parents e037173e0012
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#!/bin/bash
if [ ! "$1" ]
then
    echo 'Look up what?'
    exit 1
fi

QUERY=`echo -n "$1" | od -t x1 -A n -w1000 | tr " " %`

lynx --cfg=/dev/null --lss=/dev/null \
    --dump --width=1000 'http://etymonline.com/?search='"$QUERY" |
    grep -A 100 ']'"$1" |
    sed 's/\[[0-9]*\]//g ; s/ Look up.*// ; s/  */ /g'