I love Linux! There’s no two ways about it! For the past few years, I’ve become enamored with the open-source jewel that is Linux.
Lately, I’ve been going crazy with aliases. I’ve also been trying to make my life easier with some simple Bash/Python scripts.
When my friends over at Hak5 uploaded a HakTip about searching Wikipedia from the terminal, I knew I had to alias/script it up!
Here’s the script I put together:
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/bin/bash
# Store all arguments I provide as a string, SEARCH
SEARCH="$*"
# Replace any spaces with underscores, search wikipedia
dig +short txt ${SEARCH// /_}.wp.dg.cx
Combine that with an alias, like alias wp='/home/elliot/bin/digwp.sh',
and we get the following:
elliot@desktop ~ $ wp the tom green show
"The Tom Green Show is a North American television show which first aired
in September 1994 on Rogers Television 22, a community channel in Ottawa,
Ontario until 1996, and was later picked up by The Comedy Network in 1997.
(In 1996, Green also produced a p" "ilot episode for CBC Television,
although the CBC did not pick up the series.) http://a.vu/w:The_Tom_Green_Show"I LOVE SHORTCUTS!!
Photo by J Aaron Farr