[arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

[Jens John]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:39:05PM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote:
>May 18 2018, Ralph Corderoy has written:
>...
>>   dict -d moby-thesaurus thesaurus

You may want to use something like

  tell () 
  { 
      dict "$@" | colorit | less -R
  }

to get a coloured output, which is much more practical for long result 
lists (colorit is part of the dictd package).