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Created December 29, 2010 14:23
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simple script to update to latest edict (JMdict). I put it in /etc/cron.daily .
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update-edict.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -e
tmp="$(mktemp)"
dest="/usr/share/edict/edict.utf8"
function cleanup()
{
rm -f "$tmp"
}
trap cleanup EXIT
wget -c -t 20 -q -O - http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict.gz > "$tmp"
gunzip -c "$tmp" | iconv -f euc-jp -t utf-8 > "$dest"
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