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+#!/bin/sh
+# dictcc.sh - simple cli interface to dict.cc
+# Usage: dictcc.sh TERM [LANG1] [LANG2] [NUM] defaults to de->en with 10 results
+if [ -z "$2" ]; then
+	lf=de
+else
+	lf=$2
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$3" ]; then
+	lt=en
+else
+	lt=$3
+fi
+
+
+if [ -n "$4" ]; then
+		num=$4
+else
+		num=10
+fi
+
+echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+curl -s -X GET -G "https://$lf$lt.dict.cc/" --data-urlencode "s=$1" | \
+		grep -E "(c1Arr|c2Arr)" | \
+		sed -e "s/var \(c1Arr\|c2Arr\) = new Array(\"\",//" -e "s/);//" \
+		-e "s/\"//g" | awk 'NR == 1{split($0,lang1,",");} NR == 2{split($0,lang2,",");} 
+                END{for(i in lang1) print lang1[i] , "\t" , lang2[i]}' | head -n $num
+echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~