A shell function that looks up a word via the Wordnik API, grabs each definition via json, and cats out the results with line numbers

wordnik-shell-function.sh

# Define a word in the terminal via the Wordnik API with numbered output
function def() {
    params="$@"
    params_encoded=${params/ /%20}
	curl --silent http://api.wordnik.com:80/v4/word.json/"$params_encoded"/definitions\?api_key\="$WORDNIK_KEY" \
	| json --array text \
	| cat -b
}