sdcv ( StarDict under Console Version) is the
command line
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version of
StarDict developed by Evgeniy A. Dushistov and Hu Zheng. It employs all the dictionary files that belong to
StarDict. It is licensed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License
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.
Supported Platforms
sdcv runs under
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, whi ...
,
FreeBSD
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,
and
Solaris. As in
StarDict, dictionaries of the user's choice have to be installed separately.
Main Usage
Synopsis
:sdcv
options ist of words
Use "-h" option to view the message of whole options.
Description
sdcv is simple, cross-platform text-base utility for work with dictionaries in StarDict's format. The word from "list of words" may be string with leading '/' for using Fuzzy search algorithm, string may contain '?' and '*' for using regexp search. It works in interactive and non-interactive mode. Press Ctrl+D to exit from interactive mode?
Environment
STARDICT_DATA_DIR
If set, sdcv uses this variable as data directory. In this example sdcv searches dictionaries in $STARDICT_DATA_DIR/dic.
See also
*
StarDict
*
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates ...
External links
Official websiteSourceForge.net project page
References
{{Reflist
DICT clients
Free dictionary software
Language software for Linux
ru:StarDict#Консольная версия SDCV
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