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Topic: quick wiki lookup in terminal

Another gem from commandlinefu.com, via this page. Add this line to your .bash_aliases:

wiki() { dig +short txt $1.wp.dg.cx; }

and type 'wiki keyword' to get a quick paragraph from wikipedia in your terminal. cool

(I had 'dig' already installed on #!9.04, I haven't checked for Statler.)

edit This version lets you input multiple-word phrases without having to put them in quotes:

wiki() { dig +short txt "$*".wp.dg.cx; }

Last edited by johnraff (2010-06-04 18:12:21)

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Re: quick wiki lookup in terminal

Nice tip, thank you for sharing. smile

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Re: quick wiki lookup in terminal

ah comandlinefu

i use a slightly improved version

function wiki() #check wikipedia
{ dig +short txt "${@}".wp.dg.cx | awk 'BEGIN{RS="\" \"";ORS=""} // {gsub("\"",""); sub("htt","\nhtt"); print}';}

gets rid of the quotes etc.

also theres:

function cmdfu() #get stuff from cammandline fu 
{ wget -O - "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$@/$(echo -n "$@" | openssl base64)/plaintext";}
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  • From: Nagoya, Japan
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Re: quick wiki lookup in terminal

benj1 wrote:

ah comandlinefu

Fun!

i use a slightly improved version

function wiki() #check wikipedia
{ dig +short txt "${@}".wp.dg.cx | awk 'BEGIN{RS="\" \"";ORS=""} // {gsub("\"",""); sub("htt","\nhtt"); print}';}

gets rid of the quotes etc.

added that stuff at the end to my personal version and it does take out the quotes. Couldn't see any other difference though.
btw, for multi-word query phrases I think that "${@}" could perhaps better be a "$*" in this case?

Another recent discovery, to translate from any language to English, or other target language, with the 2-letter language code:

translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=%7C${2:-en}" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'; }

eg 
translate 'chien noir' ja
returns
黒い犬
cool -not my own work, though...

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Re: quick wiki lookup in terminal

benj1 wrote:
function cmdfu() #get stuff from cammandline fu 
{ wget -O - "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$@/$(echo -n "$@" | openssl base64)/plaintext";}

I had been using a version with curl instead of 'wget -O -' but it wouldn't take multi-word searches for some reason. Yours works though smile
Try 

wget -qO -

to get rid of wget's commentary.

Last edited by johnraff (2010-06-05 16:53:18)

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Re: quick wiki lookup in terminal

johnraff wrote:

Try 

wget -qO -

to get rid of wget's commentary.

good tip.

I'm guessing i used "${@}" , so i could do 'wiki foo,bar' and get pages for foo and bar, it doesn't work so i probably just left it.

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