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#1 Re: Quick Search in firefox Posted by PJ_at_Belzabar_Software (61.11.xx.xx) on Tue 7 Mar 2006 at 11:32 Kewl. I use surfraw (apt-get install surfraw) for a similar thing in console. With surfraw, just type: google britney spears or whatever. Similar stuff for amazon, pubmed, freshmeat, webster, wikipedia, slashdot... the list is pretty extensive. There is a lot of debian specific stuff too (alioth, debugs, debcontents, deblists, deblogs, debpackages, debpts). If something is missing, you can read the hacking file on how to hack up your own 'elvis'. I'm cobbling a simple one together for ixquick. The blurb for surfaw says: Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. PJ
With surfraw, just type:
google britney spears
or whatever. Similar stuff for amazon, pubmed, freshmeat, webster, wikipedia, slashdot... the list is pretty extensive. There is a lot of debian specific stuff too (alioth, debugs, debcontents, deblists, deblogs, debpackages, debpts). If something is missing, you can read the hacking file on how to hack up your own 'elvis'. I'm cobbling a simple one together for ixquick.
The blurb for surfaw says:
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.
PJ
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