Have you heard of Julian Assange’s surfraw? $ alias d='sr duckduckgo -text -ducky' $ d '!man surfraw' [www-browser opens http://manpages.org/surfraw]

Have you heard of Julian Assange’s surfraw? $ alias d='sr duckduckgo -text -ducky' $ d '!man surfraw' [www-browser opens http://manpages.org/surfraw] […] DESCRIPTION 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. […] Edit: even better, dict(1) (or GNU dico): $ dict foo # same text as !dict’s http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=foo