#-- FILE:
#--   lookupList-sp-en.txt
#-- DESCRIPTION: looks up the english meanings of a
#--   list of spanish words (based on file names)
#-- AUTHOR:
#--   mj bishop
#-- DATES: june 2002, sept 02
#-- LOCATION:
#--   http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/unix-shell/
#-- 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: ./lookupList-sp-en.txt WordListFile [SavePath]

    Description:
      This script looks up the English meanings of a
      List of Spanish words on the site http://www.wordreference.com/
      and saves each result into its own file
    Parameters:
      WordListFile    This is the file which contains the list of
                      Spanish Words.
      SavePath        This is the path (relative or not) in which to
                      save the definition files

      "
  exit 1
else
  sWordListFile="$1"
fi

if [ "$2" = "" ]
then
  sSavePath="."
else
  sSavePath="$2"
fi

#-- User progress message
echo "
  TRANSLATING WORDS
     "

for word in $(cat $sWordListFile | sed '/^ *#/d')
do
  echo $word
  lynx --dump $sUrlHarperCollins=$word \
    | sed -n '/\[3\]/,/\[4\]/p' \
    | sed '1d' > $sSavePath/$word.tran.txt

done