Re: Keystroke to search via search engine

Tim Chase dixit:

>I usually do this with an alias or shell function to populate the                                                                                                                                                             
>GET parameters, like                                                                                                                                                                                                          
>
>  $ goog() { lynx [2]https://google.com/search?q="$1" ; }                                                                                                                                                                     

More escaping needed ☺

# GooGle Search
ggs() {
	local _q _IFS

	_IFS=$IFS
	IFS=+
	_q="$*"
	IFS=$_IFS
	${BROWSER:-lynx} "http://www.google.com/search?hl=la&pws=0&num=100&safe=off&q=$_q"
}

# DuckDuckGo search
ddg() {
	local _q _IFS _p=/ _a=

	_IFS=$IFS
	IFS=+    
	_q="$*"  
	IFS=$_IFS
	case /${BROWSER:-lynx} in
	(*/dillo*)
		# make result page and target links work
		_p=/lite/ _a='&kd=-1' ;;
	(*/links*|*/lynx*)
		# avoid automatic redirect
		_p=/lite/ ;;
	esac
	${BROWSER:-lynx} "https://duckduckgo.com$_p?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=monospace&ku=1&ko=s&k1=-1&kv=1&t=debian&q=$_q$_a"
}

Though some want space (+) to be replaced by %20, and # is still a problem.

bye,
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