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app jargoncli

View the jargon file in a terminal

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Apr 20, 2022

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GPL-3.0-or-later

1.5MB
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Jargoncli, a terminal Jargon file viewer

Installation

Run cargo install --path . in the root of the git repo.

The binary will be installed to ~/.cargo/bin you may have to source ~/.cargo/env to use it.

It is recommended to copy the jargon447 file to the default path of /usr/local/share/jargon.

Usage

jargoncli [file path/to/jargon/file] [define wordtodefine] [index]
	
	file: Jargon file location
	define: Print a word's entry in the file
	index: Output a list of entrys

Updating the file

You can download text versions of the file from http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/.

The file seems to contain invalid UTF-8, which can be removed with iconv:

iconv -f utf8 -t utf8//IGNORE < jargonfile > jargonwithvalidunicode

No runtime deps