wq is a small shell script to help you practice words, vocabulary or definitions in general.
All you need is a text file (txt, md, etc) in which you list the words to be tested. This could look like this:
biological_terms.md
# Biological terms
## A
* Aldosterone - mineralocorticoid hormone compound secreted by the adrenal gland cortex
* Atavism - phenomenon in which a phenotypic trait reappears in an organism after a period of absence
## B
* Bilirubin - a molecule formed from the breakdown of red blood cells, and other cells with porphyrins
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You can set the path to the file (e.g. "$HOME/Documents/biological_terms.md") in the first line of the wq file:
file="<path_to_default_file>"In the next two lines you can set the variables bullet and separator:
bullet="*"
separator="-"By default, wq expects a * as a bullet, but you can also take another one like -. The variable is needed so that wq knows which lines to include; all others, like headers or empty lines, are ignored.
By default, wq expects a - as a delimiter, but you can also use an en dash (–) or colon (:) or whatever.
After downloading and setting the variables as described above, it is recommended to copy the file to /usr/local/bin:
$ sudo cp wq /usr/local/bin
After that you just have to call wq in the terminal and the script will pick a random word from the file.
$ wq
Atavism
Click enter to display the definition...
You think about the answer and after clicking Enter you can check if you were right.
If you call wq without any arguments, it will take the file that was stored in the file variable. But you also have the possibility to take another file as input, for example:
$ wq ~/Documents/spanish_vocabulary.md
That's it. Good luck with your practice!