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:
#!/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/scripts/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!!