參考：http://plog.longwin.com.tw/programming/2007/01/12/y_dictionary_script_2007

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@leeym.com>
# 2007/01/09
use Encode qw(encode decode from_to);
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
use Data::Dumper;
use LWP::Simple;
use strict;

ydict(shift);

sub ydict
{
  my $p = shift;
  die if !$p;
  my $html = get("http://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/search?p=$p");
  from_to($html, "utf-8", "big5") if $ENV{'LC_CTYPE'} =~ /Big5/;
  my $i = 0;
  $html =~ s/\r//g;
  $html =~ s/\n//g;
  if ($html =~ m{<em class="warning">})
  {
    if ($html =~ m{<em class="warning">.*?>(\S+)<.*?</em>})
    {
      my $q = $1;
      print BOLD . YELLOW . "\nERROR: $p -> $q\n" . RESET;
      return ydict($q);
    }
    else
    {
      print BOLD . YELLOW . "ERROR: $p\n" . RESET;
      return;
    }
  }
  print BOLD . YELLOW . "\n$p\n" . RESET;
  while ($html =~ m{<div class=p(\w+)>(.*?)</div>}i)
  {
    my $type = $1;
    my $line = $2;
    $html = $';
    my $color;
    my $bold = BOLD;
    my $reset = RESET;
    $line =~ s/^\s+//;
    $line =~ s/\s+$//;
    if ($type eq 'cixin')
    {
      $i = 0;
      $color = BOLD . RED;
    }
    elsif ($type eq 'chi' or $type eq 'eng')
    {
      $color = CYAN;
      $reset = RESET . $color;
      $line = "\t$line";
    }
    elsif ($type eq 'explain')
    {
      $i++;
      $line = "$i $line";
    }
    else
    {
      $color = BOLD . BLUE;
      next;
    }
    $line =~ s,<b>,$bold,g;
    $line =~ s,</b>,$reset,g;
    $line =~ s/<[^>]+>//g;
    print $color . "$line\n" . RESET;
  }
  print "\n";
}

#!/bin/sh
curl -sd "p=$1" http://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/search  | \
         awk "/pexplain/{ print } \
         /peng/{ print } \
         /pchi/{ print ; print \"\n\" }" | \
         sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba'

 $ chmod +x filename 

執行：

 $ ./filename [單字]