Blazingly fast full-text English Wiktionary search in command line. Includes word type and basic definitions of over 781K word meanings in English Wiktionary.
Run in command line (make sure it is executable with chmod +x dict):
dict
Use Tab to select multiple entries for output. By default the search is from the beginning, you can delete the prepended ^ to search anywhere in the text.
Make sure you have gzip and fzf installed. In Arch Linux you install them with:
sudo pacman -S gzip fzf
For retrieving and parsing English Wiktionary data you additionally need wget, bzip2 and perl. In Arch Linux you install them with:
sudo pacman -S wget bzip2 perl
You can retrieve original Wiktionary database dump from the following link. To download an exact version with wget (cca 705 MB):
wget https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/wikimedia.org/dumps/enwiktionary/20200301/enwiktionary-20200301-pages-articles.xml.bz2
You can also preview just the first few 5 MB of the file online using wget, bzcat and vim:
wget -qO- https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/wikimedia.org/dumps/enwiktionary/20200301/enwiktionary-20200301-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | bzcat | head --bytes=5M | vim -
Once you downloaded the database dump you can decompress it with bzip2:
bzip2 -d enwiktionary-20200301-pages-articles.xml.bz2
Or you can use bzcat to preview first 5 MB in vim:
bzcat enwiktionary-20200301-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head --bytes=5MB | vim -
Script wiktionary-parse in parse/ folder parses the raw English Wiktionary data. Once you download the data with the instructions above you can parse it with (make sure it is executable with chmod +x wiktionary-parse):
data/wiktionary-parse enwiktionary-20200301-pages-articles.xml.bz2 > enwiktionary-20200301.txt
As dict works with compressed text file you have to compress the final output with gzip:
gzip -c enwiktionary-20200301.txt > enwiktionary-20200301.txt.gz