I am probably not the only one to be overcome with the delights and wonders of wikipedia.org. However, searching my favourite encyclopaedia is a bit of a chore. The wikipedia.org main page is slow at the best of times. I'd rather have something like my google bar that would allow me to type in a query (XFS, for example) and then boom!, up comes a page telling me all about XFS. So I wrote a script that does exactly that:
#!/bin/bash
open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:\
Search?search=$(echo $@ | sed 's/\ /+/g')
After saving that to a file (I called mine wikipedia) and running chmod 755 wikipedia to make it executable, place it in your command path (I use ~/bin). Now all you have to do to search for wikipedia entries with references to dogs with pockets is go to the terminal and type:
$ wikipedia dogs with pockets
You can probably think of more useful things to search for...
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