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I wish to write a script file to look up definitions in an online dictionary from a long list of words (5000 words). I don't want my ISP or website to ban me, and also Firefox won't be able to run 5000 tabs, so I wanted to add a pause to the list after say about 50 searches, close those tabs, and continue then search for the next 50 words with the press of a button. I've read a lot of the posts online but I haven't been successful in getting my script to run.

This is what I have so far:

I create a script file named words with Mousepad, set file permissions as executable, and pasted the following into the file. Then I click the file and it runs.

It looks up the words but it doesn't pause after looking up 'stehen' (line 3) as I expect the read command should. What am I doing wrong?

Note: This script is only a sample since I don't want to test it with 5000 words.

#! /bin/bash  

firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l"  

firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen"  

read -p "Press Enter to continue"  

firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden"  

firefox "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"  

by the way, when I had Windows I had this working well. I simply added Pause! every 50 lines or so.

This code does it:

#!/bin/bash



firefox -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"

sleep 10

firefox -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen"

sleep 10

firefox -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=l"

sleep 10

firefox -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=stehen" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"

sleep 10

firefox -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=finden" -new-tab -url "https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=bleiben"

-Your code has Firefox open each page in a new window. The -new-tab -url opens each page in a separate tab. I just used some of the URLs that you had multiple times. You can adjust it with the URLs that you need.

-After closing the Firefox window, it sleeps for 10 seconds via sleep 10. This is the equivalent of the pause command in Windows. You can adjust the time if needed.

-You can replace sleep 10 with read -p "Press Enter to continue" if you'd rather press enter when you want to open a new Window and tabs.

Which one it performs is up to you.