Dict
From NixOS Wiki
Revision as of 20:28, 20 October 2021 by Crocodillian (talk | contribs) (Clarify that dictionary lookups are over the network.)
The dict
utility does network dictionary lookups from the command-line, it is part of the dictd
software distribution.
Setup
Add `dict` to your list of packages in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
:
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
dict
];
Run the following as your user:
echo 'server dict.org' > ~/.dictrc
Usage
To lookup a word, run, for example:
dict snowflake