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As with all of these cli based www search tools I just don't see how learning/installing these is any quicker than: alt-j (I'm using wmii which is pretty 'raw')
by res0nat0r 17y ago
As with all of these cli based www search tools I just don't see how learning/installing these is any quicker than: alt-j (I'm using wmii which is pretty 'raw'), "<imdb|slashdot|freshmeat|define> keyword" from your firefox google based homepage, cut/paste. I like to be minimal and love my mutt/irssi/cplay/vim sessions all wrapped in screen, but google based keyword searching via a firefox homepage seems hard to really beat in practicality.
- mcav 17y agoCould be useful for scripting.
- zzzzzzzzz 17y agoHow so? Afaict it just produces a url and hands it off to a browser of your choice. For example, the piratebay example which Bjoern posted (which requires a separate 'dlynx' script, btw): surfraw -browser="dlynx" piratebay 2012 | whatever... can be rewritten as: lynx -dump http://thepiratebay.org/search/2012 http://thepiratebay.org/search/2012 | whatever...