sdcv is the command line version of StarDict developed by Evgeniy A. Dushistov and Hu Zheng. It employs all dictionary files that belong to StarDict.
Contents
The word sdcv stands for StarDict under Console Version.
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Supported Platforms
sdcv runs under Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. As in StarDict, dictionaries of the user's choice have to be installed separately.
Synopsis
sdcv [ options ] [list 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.
Advantages
Sometimes, we need to search for a certain pattern or example sentence from the dictionaries. sdcv along with text filter tools such as awk, sed, grep, and so on to will, of course, be very helpful.