Can I automating dictionary import/export via comand line?

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bill02888

Can I automating dictionary import/export via comand line?

Post by bill02888 »

So many programs have their own personal dictionaries. Thunderbird. Firefox. Microsoft Word. TextPad. I'm tired of having to enter my weird street name, weird city name, unusual last name, etc., into ALL of them, on ALL of my computers.

I'm working on a little tool (not very friendly, but workable) with the goal of being able to automate the pulling together all the various entries on a single computer, sort them, remove duplicate listings, then pushing the merged list back out to all the software on the single computer. Also of adding the ability to take the merged file and move it to other computers to update and merge THEIR words too. I've got it working for Thunderbird and Mozilla, which is a good start.

I see that I can import and export the "personal dictionary" from within TextPad. Can I do that from the TextPad command line? That would be rather handy for me. I realize that I can probably just parse the file (<tab>i at the end of each line, special line at the top, etc.) but I'd rather use the build-in tools if/when possible.

Thanks,
Bill
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Post by ak47wong »

Short answer: no. You can see a list of all the command line parameters in the help, under Reference Information.

Andrew
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