Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> >
> > Wow, thanks for that Raju. This dict program is really going to save
> > me a lot of time googling things :D
>
> You are welcome! Little programs like this really make the linux experience
> wonderful! One of the drawbacks of dict is that there is no way (I think)
> to search for idioms. For example, I cannot search for
>
> $ dict "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush"
>
> For those kind of things I use www.wiktionary.org . Install google's toolbar
> in iceweasel and add a custom search for wiktionary, wikipedia for more
> quicker way of finding about stuff.
Fortune will have some of those sayings, such as:
$ fortune -im 'bird in the hand'
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
-- Cervantes
Going back to the acronyms, you can also use 'wtf' for some if you
have the bsd-games package installed. You just type something like:
$ wtf is wtf
WTF: {what,where,who,why} the fuck
:-)
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Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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