Simple 'dict' function. Thursday Apr 18 11:59:41 2013 I use http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ on a daily basis. I've got a bookmark in my GUI browser to access the site quickly. However, today I realized that my searches are in the form URL/word_I_want_to_look_up and I thought that it could be much more handy and faster to use a CLI browser like elinks (one of my favourites) or lynx. So I wrote a very simple function to ease my searches: dict () { URL="http://www.thefreedictionary.com" BROWSER="lynx" $BROWSER ${URL}/${1} } Now I just have to type: dict word_I_want_to_look_up and enjoy