Informational Commands (GNU Dico Manual)

7.2.3 Informational Commands

The ls command lists available strategies (see SHOW STRAT):

dico> .ls
exact "Match words exactly"
prefix "Match word prefixes"
soundex "Match using SOUNDEX algorithm"
all "Match everything (experimental)"
lev "Match headwords within given Levenshtein distance"
dlev "Match headwords within given Damerau-Levenshtein
      distance"
re "POSIX 1003.2 (modern) regular expressions"
regexp "Old (basic) regular expressions"
suffix "Match word suffixes"
rev-qu "Reverse search in Quechua databases"

The ld command lists available databases (see SHOW DB):

dico> .ld
eng-swa "English-Swahili xFried/FreeDict Dictionary"
swa-eng "Swahili-English xFried/FreeDict Dictionary"
afr-eng "Afrikaans-English FreeDict Dictionary"
eng-afr "English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary"

The info command displays information about a database, whose name is given as its argument. If used without arguments, it displays information about the current database.

dico> .info pl-en-naut
pl-en-naut - A Polish-English dictionary of nautical terms.
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7.2.3 Informational Commands