XFCE forum? (Page 2 of 2)

Its somewhat possible. Using an example:

site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle:openbox conky

It will search the CrunchBang forums for threads with the word openbox, then look inside the page for the word conky. Heres an example searching the June screenshot thread:

As you see it only points you to the right page.

Some more tips: if you want to search for a phrase put it in quotes like intitle:"openbox theme". You can also use operators like intitle:openbox OR theme, intitle:openbox AND theme.

Nice stuff ... wish there was a way to have that is a bash script:

gs-i.sh

#!/bin/bash
iceweasel -googlesearch: site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle: $string

gs-or.sh

#!/bin/bash
iceweasel -googlesearch: site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle: $string1 OR $string2

gs-and.sh

#!/bin/bash
iceweasel -googlesearch: site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle: $string1 AND $string2

... because my typing and bash script abilities are on par with that of a mentally challenged chimpanzee using a computer compared to other here. 

^ Oh my, I was kind of joking thinking it wasn't really possible.  I should know better.

Since switching to #! v9.04 and now Statler, I have been spending more time with the terminal and "under the hood", but not too deep under mind you, so I am forcing myself little by little to learn more.

But this is great, thank you once again anonymous.

Like this: Bash Scripts - make crunching easier

Ah yes! So if you use the full name of the thread in the "intitle" bit you should be able to do a search on that one thread.

site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle:"xfce forum?" debian

This worked fine.

True...

OK that just leaves the question of putting in the quotes for phrase title searches, eg

iceweasel "http://www.google.com/search?q=site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle:\"$q\""

This works for searching for "xfce forum", but now AND and OR searches don't...

edit:
Makes it more complicated, but you could add a '-p' option to search for a phrase in the title:

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in    # allows for adding more options later
    -p)shift
    q="\"$*\"";;
    *)q="$*";;
esac
iceweasel "http://www.google.com/search?q=site:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ intitle:$q"
exit

so '-p xfce forum' searches for 'xfce forum' in the title.
btw 'intitle:conky AND file' seems to search for conky in the title and file anywhere, not both conky and file in the title.

Last edited by johnraff (2010-06-23 05:16:19)

Posted a bloated version of Crunchbang search on Sector11's thread:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/73953/#p73953

...so I posted that script (incorporating some of the ideas that came up here) over there precisely because I thought it was a more appropriate place than an "XFCE forum?" thread, with the vague hope that this googly discussion might move over there too. If your intention was something different, apologies.