Adding a decent error handling

2023-06-02 21:22:57 -04:00 · 2023-06-02 21:22:57 -04:00 · b5e990017f
parent 728c80d8f6
commit b5e990017f
1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/12
+++ b/12
@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/sh

 word=${1:-$(sselp)}
-sdcv -n --utf8-output -e "$word"   | tail -n +5 | perl -pe 's/<[^>]*>//g' | popup
+
+dict_lookup=$(sdcv -n --utf8-output -e "$word")
+
+
+if echo "$dict_lookup" | perl -0777 -ne 'exit 0 if /Nothing similar to/ ; exit 1'; then
+        echo "$dict_lookup" | popup
+
+else
+      echo "$dict_lookup"   | tail -n +5 |  perl -pe 's/<[^>]*>//g' | popup
+
+fi