#-- FILE:
#--   lookup-sp-en.txt
#-- DESCRIPTION: looks up the english meanings of a
#--   spanish word
#-- AUTHOR:
#--   mj bishop
#-- DATES: june 2002
#-- TESTING:
#--   This script has been tested on the Cygwin
#--   unix emulator running on WinMe.

#-- urls of online spanish dictionaries.
sUrlHarperCollins="http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen"
sUrlSpanishDict="http://www.spanishdict.com/AS.cfm?e"

#-- Check for valid parameters
if [ "$1" = "" ]
then
  echo "
    usage: ./lookup-sp-en.txt spanishword

    This script looks up the English meanings of a
    Spanish word on the site http://www.wordreference.com/
    and returns the result as plain text
      "
  exit 1
else
  sLookupWord="$1"
fi

lynx --dump $sUrlHarperCollins=$sLookupWord \
   | sed -n '/\[3\]/,/\[4\]/p' \
   | sed '1d'