NAME¶
dico - a DICT client
SYNOPSIS¶
dico [
-mDSHIqatvh] [
-p SERVICE] [
-d NAME] [
-s
NAME] [
-i DBNAME] [
-u NAME] [
-k STRING] [
-c
STRING] [
--host=SERVER] [
--port=SERVICE]
[
--database=NAME] [
--source=ADDR] [
--match] [
--strategy=NAME] [
--levdist,
--levenshtein-distance=
N]fR [
--dbs] [
--strategies] [
--serverhelp] [
--info=DBNAME]
[
--serverinfo] [
--quiet] [
--noauth] [
--sasl]
[
--nosasl] [
--user=NAME] [
--key,
--passwordfR=STRING]fR [
--autologin=NAME]
[
--client=STRING] [
--transcript] [
--verbose]
[
--time-stamp] [
--source-info] [
--help]
[
--usage] [
--version]
DESCRIPTION¶
dico is an RFC 2229 compliant dictionary client.
OPTIONS¶
Server selection¶
- --host=SERVER
- Connect to this server.
- -p, --port=SERVICE
- Specify port to connect to.
- -d, --database=NAME
- Select a database to search.
- --source=ADDR
- Set a source address for TCP connections.
Operation modes¶
- -m, --match
- Match instead of define.
- -s, --strategy=NAME
- Select a strategy for matching. Implies --match.
- --levdist, --levenshtein-distance=N
- Set maximum Levenshtein distance to N.
- -D, --dbs
- Show available databases.
- -S, --strategies
- Show available search strategies.
- -H, --serverhelp
- show server help.
- -i, --info=DBNAME
- Show information about database DBNAME.
- -I, --serverinfo
- Show information about the server.
- -q, --quiet
- Do not print the normal dico welcome.
Authentication¶
- -a, --noauth
- Disable authentication.
- --sasl
- Enable SASL authentication (default).
- --nosasl
- Disable SASL authentication.
- -u, --user=NAME
- Set user name for authentication.
- -k, --key, --password=STRING
- Set shared secret for authentication.
- --autologin=NAME
- Set the name of autologin file to use.
- -c, --client=STRING
- Additional text for client command.
Debugging¶
- -t, --transcript
- Enable session transcript.
- -v, --verbose
- Increase debugging verbosity level.
- --time-stamp
- Include time stamp in the debugging output.
- --source-info
- Include source line information in the debugging output.
Other options¶
- -h, --help
- Give this help list
- --usage
- Give a short usage message
- --version
- Print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs to <bug-dico@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Sergey Poznyakoff License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO¶
dicod(8),
The full documentation for
dico is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info and
dico-doc programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
- info dico
should give you access to the complete manual.
AUTHOR¶
dico was written by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>.
This manual page was written by أحمد
المحمودي (Ahmed
El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>, for the Debian project (and may
be used by others).
