Sample usage

Some example queries:

$ myougiden tea ceremony      # guess what kind of query to run
$ myougiden 茶                # ibid
$ myougiden chanoyu           # if no match is found, treat as rōmaji
$ myougiden -r kanji          # forces rōmaji

$ myougiden -w flower tea     # word search; return matches including both
$ myougiden -w flower -tea    # matches include word 'flower' but not 'tea'
$ myougiden -w 'tea ceremony' # matches include the phrase in this order

$ myougiden -b 茶             # beggining word search; starts with 茶

$ myougiden -p 茶             # partial match anywhere
$ myougiden -p -f 茶          # ...but limit to frequent words
$ myougiden -p -f -t 茶       # ...and tab-separated, single-line output

$ myougiden -x '茶$'          # regexp search

$ myougiden -h                # long help
$ myougiden -a uK             # consult documentation for abbreviations

Screenshots

http://namakajiri.net/pics/screenshots/myougiden.png

Installation

myougiden needs Python 3 and pip. In Debian/Ubuntu, you can install them like this:

$ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip

Then install myougiden using pip:

$ sudo pip-3.2 install myougiden # use your version

Then, you need to compile the dictionary database at least once:

$ sudo updatedb-myougiden -f
# This command downloads and compile JMdict.
# It's a bit slow, go have some coffee...

That’s it, have fun!

EDICT/JMdict is a frequently updated dictionary. If you’d like to keep up with new entries and corrections, consider adding updatedb-myougiden -f to cron (for example, in /etc/cron.weekly/myougiden ).

$ sudo pip install --upgrade myougiden

$ sudo apt-get install python3.1 curl
$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python3.1 distribute_setup.py
$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ sudo python3.1 get-pip.py

$ sudo pip-3.1 install argparse

$ sudo pip-3.1 install myougiden
$ sudo updatedb-myougiden -f

$ git clone git://github.com/melissaboiko/myougiden.git
$ cd myougiden
$ sudo python3 setup.py install