Dear folks,
I have never cottoned on to command line browsing or even text mode
browsing with lynx.
I only use dict which is a command line app to look up meanings of
English words and even tech terms.
However here is a way to do a command line dump of Wikipedia pages.
First install WWW::Wikipedia perl module. How you do it is your
choice. One possibility is this:
# cpan WWW::Wikipedia
or
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Wikipedia;'
Once you do that just run this:
--------------begin script----------
use WWW::Wikipedia;
$text = shift;
my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new();
my $entry = $wiki->search( $text );
print $entry->fulltext();
-----------end script---------------
Run it like this:
$ perl w.pl india
to find out about India.
In fact my favorite topic Hindu philosophy is brilliantly dealt with
in wikipedia.
-Girish
--
Gayatri Hitech
http://gayatri-hitech.com
[email protected]
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