#!/bin/bash
# Command line look up using Google's define feature - command line dictionary
echo "Type in your word:"
read word
/usr/bin/curl -s -A 'Mozilla/4.0' 'http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+'$word \
| html2text -ascii -nobs -style compact -width 500 | grep "*"
Dumps a whole series of definitions from google.com an example is below:
Type in your word:
world
* universe: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
* people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world"
* all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
Thing is, I don't want all the definitions, just the first one:
universe: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
How can a grab that sentence out from the output? Its between two *, could that be used?