creating batch file that looks up definitions and pauses
I'm trying to create a file that looks up definitions in an online dictionary from a long list of words (5000 words). However, I don't want my ISP or website to ban me, and also firefox won't be able to run 5000 tabs, so I wanted to add a pause to the list after say about 50 searchs, close those tabs, and continue then search for the next 50 words with the press of a button. I've read a lot of the posts online but I haven't been successful.
This is what I have so far:
I create a file called words (and made file permissions executable X) with Mousepad and pasted the following into the file. Then I click the file and it runs. It looks up the words but it doesn't pause after looking up 'stehen' (the second command). Obviously, this list is only a sample since I don't want to test it with 5000 words. What am I doing wrong?
#! /bin/bash
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen"
read -p "Press Enter to continue"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"
by the way, when I had Windows I had this working well. I simply added Pause! every 50 lines or so.
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I'm trying to create a file that looks up definitions in an online dictionary from a long list of words (5000 words). However, I don't want my ISP or website to ban me, and also firefox won't be able to run 5000 tabs, so I wanted to add a pause to the list after say about 50 searchs, close those tabs, and continue then search for the next 50 words with the press of a button. I've read a lot of the posts online but I haven't been successful.
This is what I have so far:
I create a file called words (and made file permissions executable X) with Mousepad and pasted the following into the file. Then I click the file and it runs. It looks up the words but it doesn't pause after looking up 'stehen' (the second command). Obviously, this list is only a sample since I don't want to test it with 5000 words. What am I doing wrong?
#! /bin/bash
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen"
read -p "Press Enter to continue"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"
by the way, when I had Windows I had this working well. I simply added Pause! every 50 lines or so.
linux bash
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I'm trying to create a file that looks up definitions in an online dictionary from a long list of words (5000 words). However, I don't want my ISP or website to ban me, and also firefox won't be able to run 5000 tabs, so I wanted to add a pause to the list after say about 50 searchs, close those tabs, and continue then search for the next 50 words with the press of a button. I've read a lot of the posts online but I haven't been successful.
This is what I have so far:
I create a file called words (and made file permissions executable X) with Mousepad and pasted the following into the file. Then I click the file and it runs. It looks up the words but it doesn't pause after looking up 'stehen' (the second command). Obviously, this list is only a sample since I don't want to test it with 5000 words. What am I doing wrong?
#! /bin/bash
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen"
read -p "Press Enter to continue"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"
by the way, when I had Windows I had this working well. I simply added Pause! every 50 lines or so.
linux bash
edited 33 secs ago
Rui F Ribeiro
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I'm trying to create a file that looks up definitions in an online dictionary from a long list of words (5000 words). However, I don't want my ISP or website to ban me, and also firefox won't be able to run 5000 tabs, so I wanted to add a pause to the list after say about 50 searchs, close those tabs, and continue then search for the next 50 words with the press of a button. I've read a lot of the posts online but I haven't been successful.
This is what I have so far:
I create a file called words (and made file permissions executable X) with Mousepad and pasted the following into the file. Then I click the file and it runs. It looks up the words but it doesn't pause after looking up 'stehen' (the second command). Obviously, this list is only a sample since I don't want to test it with 5000 words. What am I doing wrong?
#! /bin/bash
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen"
read -p "Press Enter to continue"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden"
firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"
by the way, when I had Windows I had this working well. I simply added Pause! every 50 lines or so.
linux bash
linux bash
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