I came across a page yesterday that contained a wikipedia script that allows quick searches in wikipedia from the command line. I saved the script but could not find the site again this morning. The script works fine. I simply changed the pager line to use /bin/share/less instead of more, so I can scroll backwards if I choose.
Usage: $ ./wikipedia.sh "Avogadro's number" <--- an apostrophe is a special character, so use quotes $ ./wikipedia.sh Avogadro number $ ./wikipedia.sh Avogadro #!/bin/bash # # wikipedia.sh - Forget the regular encyclopedia # # 2008 - Mike Golvach - [email protected] # # Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License # numargs=$# if [ $numargs -lt 1 ] then echo "Usage: $0 Your Wikipedia Query" echo "Ex: $0 linux" echo "Ex: $0 \"linux kernel" echo "Quotes only necessary if you use apostrophes, etc" exit 1 fi if [ $numargs -gt 1 ] then args=`echo $args|sed 's/ /_/g'` fi echo args="$@" wget=/usr/bin/wget pager=/usr/bin/less $wget -nv -O - "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${args}"; 2>&1|grep -i "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name" >/dev/null 2>&1 anygood=$? if [ $anygood -eq 0 ] then args=`echo $args|sed 's/%20/ /g'` echo "No results found for $args" exit 2 fi $wget -nv -O - "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${args}"; 2>&1|sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>/ /g;/</N;//ba'|sed -e '1,/Jump to:/d' -e '/^$/N;/\n$/N;//D' -e '/^.*[.*edit.*].*See also.*$/,$d' -e '/This *disambiguation *page/,$d' -e '/^$/N;/\n$/D'|$pager exit 0 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
