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Learn word etymologies quickly from the command line
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
require 'rubygems' | |
require 'nokogiri' | |
require 'open-uri' | |
require 'colorful' | |
url = "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=#{ARGV[0]}" | |
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)) | |
doc.css('dl').search('dt').each do |node| | |
puts "#{node.text}".white | |
desc = node.next_element.text | |
desc = (desc.scan(/.{,80}[^"\w]/).map { |line| line.strip }).join "\n" | |
puts "#{desc}".green | |
end |
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