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Re: Using Curl Dict to Look up place names with more than one word

From: Gisle Vanem <gvanem_at_broadpark.no>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:22:09 +0200

<denver_work_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm a new member of this forum. I was digging into the curl dict command and was able to
> invoke curl dict://dict.org/d:Avery:gaz2k-counties -o D:\TEST_CURL\Avery.txt and get a
> text file about Avery County, North Carolina in the directory and file name that I specified.
>
> But how would I get information for a city that has more than one word.
> curl dict://dict.org/d:Blowing Rock:gaz2k-places -o D:\TEST_CURL\BlowingRock.txt
> The above command gives me definitions of blowing, but nothing about the city.

This works here on Windows:

  curl dict://dict.org/"d:Blowing Rock:gaz2k-places"

150 1 definitions retrieved
151 "Blowing Rock" gaz2k-places "U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)"
Blowing Rock, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
   Population (2000): 1418
...

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Received on 2013-08-28