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Google Search Straight From the Command Line!
18Apr2008 Filed under: General, Internet Author: Rami Taibah
Sebastian Bilbeau authored a script that enables you to Google straight from the comfort of your command line interface! How sweet is that? The script will give you the links of the first 11 result in Google, nothing more nothing less. Meaning don’t expect it to give you titles and description, very rudimentary stuff I must say, but still it is kinda neat. Cheers Sebi!
You only need to do two simple things, first of all you will need to install the command line browser lynx:
sudo apt-get install lynx
You will then need to download a script authored by
wget http://public.tux-planet.fr/shell/script-google
Change permissions and rename:
chmod +x google.sh && mv google.sh google
Now here is where the fun starts, execution!
rami@rami-desktop:~/Desktop$ ./google Royal HeHe2-ness
http://dd0s.jaiku.com/presence/32174627
http://hehe2.net/
http://hehe2.net/linux-general/etymology-of-a-linux-distro/
http://hehe2.net/linux-general/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-linux-u
http://hehe2.net/linuxhumor/howto-convert-a-friend-to-linux/
Now only if I could figure out the practicality of this? Any ideas guys? 
- Tags: Command Line, Google, Linux
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April 18th, 2008 at 5:22 am
sweet
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numerodix Vote:
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April 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
That’s cool, but what are you gonna do with those urls in your terminal?
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Rami Taibah Vote:
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April 18th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
@numerodix, Actually nothing much so far I just used it to check how my blog ranks against some keywords. thats about it. Hey but maybe it just contributes to the “geek factor”
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Geoserv Vote:
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April 19th, 2008 at 3:55 am
STUMBLED!
Very cool.
VOTED for you at:
http://www.newsdots.com/tutorials/google-search-straight-from-the-command-line-royal-hehe2-ness/
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sebastien Bilbeau Vote:
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April 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I’am the author of this script and I have change that name.
The new link is :
http://public.tux-planet.fr/shell/script-google
Sorry.
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April 25th, 2008 at 1:47 am
This is a neat script, can do with some improvements probably but it’s fair.
However easier would be to use Lynx and search Google and then you can even use the URL’s huh?
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May 7th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Actually very useful. I’m putting together a technical library of datasheets for new products I’m going to be working with (I’m a computer hardware debug technician.) I have 322 parts to find a datasheet for. I wrote a script that calls Sebastien’s script and redirect the top 3 results into an html file. Downloading and organizing all those files is still very time consuming, but’s it’s a heck of a lot faster when I don’t have to manually type every Manufacturers Name and Part Number into Google myself.
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Rami Taibah Vote:
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May 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
@Keith P. Wow that’s great!! I always new there is something useful out of this script…thanks for sharing.
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