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Most sdcv output is repeated twice
Here’s an odd one. Most output I get from sdcv
(0.52) is shown two times. The second output consecutively to the first. However something like sdcv -v
is only output once. Here is the output of sdcv -l
:
> sdcv -l
Dictionary's name Word count
The Britannica Concise 24402
Duden 118901
LDaF 57822
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 34153
English Thesaurus 20003
AHD Indo-European and Semitic Roots Supplement (En-En) 1022
Apresyan (En-Ru) 117141
English Etymology 18380
Obscene language (En-Ru) 226
English-Greek 13357
Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed. P1 140086
Latin-English 2300
Longman Dictionary of Common Errors (En-En) 1277
Collins Thesaurus (En-En) 11649
AHD Indo-European and Semitic Roots Supplement (En-En) 1022
American_Idioms 2nd Ed 25740
The Britannica Concise 24402
Duden 118901
LDaF 57822
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 34153
English Thesaurus 20003
AHD Indo-European and Semitic Roots Supplement (En-En) 1022
Apresyan (En-Ru) 117141
English Etymology 18380
Obscene language (En-Ru) 226
English-Greek 13357
Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed. P1 140086
Latin-English 2300
Longman Dictionary of Common Errors (En-En) 1277
Collins Thesaurus (En-En) 11649
AHD Indo-European and Semitic Roots Supplement (En-En) 1022
American_Idioms 2nd Ed 25740
And here the output of an interactive query:
> sdcv bread
Found 16 items, similar to bread.
0)The Britannica Concise-->bread
1)Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-->bread
2)Apresyan (En-Ru)-->bread
3)English Etymology-->bread
4)English-Greek-->bread
5)Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed. P1-->bread
6)Longman Dictionary of Common Errors (En-En)-->bread
7)Collins Thesaurus (En-En)-->bread
8)The Britannica Concise-->bread
9)Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-->bread
10)Apresyan (En-Ru)-->bread
11)English Etymology-->bread
12)English-Greek-->bread
13)Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed. P1-->bread
14)Longman Dictionary of Common Errors (En-En)-->bread
15)Collins Thesaurus (En-En)-->bread
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The doubling of output also happen when I use this shell function:
dict () {
sdcv -n --utf8-input --utf8-output --color "$@" 2>&1 | fold --width="$(tput cols)" | w3m
}
I’m running it under ZorinOS 16 (which is based on Ubuntu 20.04). I’m at a loss as to why this happens. I’ve manually set the $STARDICT_DATA_DIR
to $HOME/.stardict/dic/
and placed the dictionaries in sub-directories within.
Does this happen if you use the -e
(exact / no fuzzy search) option? KoReader has some code that works around the fact that sdcv can output the same entry multiple times if it decides to trigger a fuzzy search after finding an exact search (the exact search finds an entry and outputs it, then fuzzy search finds the same entry and outputs it again).
Yup, same outcome.
I experienced a similar issue awhile ago. It turned out, I had two sets of dictionaries at different locations, both used by sdcv at the same time!