Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web

Home Page: [1]http://surfraw.sourceforge.net/

Distribution:
[2]ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/proff/surfraw-1.0.7.tar.gz

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     Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
                    http://surfraw.sourceforge.net/

                                Oh Baybe
                               I need some
                              Deep Linking
                                Let us go
                           Surfin' in the raw!

 Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of
 popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims
 google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index,
 slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen
 lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in
 unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.

 Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on
 with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms
 is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are
 good at. Combined with netscape-remote or incremental text browsers,
 such as links (http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/), w3m
 (http://www.w3m.org/), and screen(1) a Surfraw liberateur is capable
 of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear
 and wonder.

 For example:

        $ ask why is jeeves gay?
        $ google -results=100 RMS, GNU, which is sinner, which is sin?
        $ austlii -method=phrase dog like
        $ rhyme -method=perfect Julian

 Global options are common to all Surfraw elvi (clients). You can
 get a list of the currently installed elvi by just typing `surfraw'.
 For example:

 $ surfraw
W               -- Activate Surfraw defined web-browser
altavista       -- Search the web using Altavista (www.altavista.com)
amazon          -- Search the amazon.com bookstore
appwatch        -- Search entries on Appwatch (www.appwatch.com)
ask             -- Question the web using Ask Jeeves (www.ask.com)
austlii         -- Search Australian Law docs (www.austlii.edu.au)
britannica      -- Look up word in Encyclopedia Britannica (www.britannica.com)
cite            -- Search computer science papers (www.researchindex.com)
cnn             -- Search on CNN (cnn.com)
currency        -- Abuse the Universal Currency Converter (www.xe.net/ucc)
debbugs         -- Search the debian BTS (bugs.debian.org)
debcontents     -- Search contents of debian packages(packages.debian.org)
debpackages     -- Search debian packages (packages.debian.org)
deja            -- Search usenet using Deja News (www.dejanews.com)
excite          -- Search on Excite (www.excite.com)
fast            -- Search the web using FAST Search (www.alltheweb.com)
filesearching   -- Search files on filesearching (www.filesearching.com)
freebsd         -- Search FreeBSD related information (www.freebsd.org)
freshmeat       -- Search Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net)
ftpfind         -- Search files on ftpfind (www.ftpfind.com)
ftpsearch       -- Search files on ftpsearch (ftpsearch.lycos.com)
google          -- Search the web using Google (www.google.com)
jake            -- Search journal/databases in jake (jake.med.yale.edu)
linuxdoc        -- Search entries in LDP (www.linuxdoc.org)
netbsd          -- Search NetBSD related information (www.netbsd.org)
openbsd         -- Search OpenBSD related information (www.openbsd.org)
pubmed          -- Search medical/molbio databases (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
raging          -- Search the web using Raging (www.raging.com)
rhyme           -- Search for rhymes et al using Lycos Rhyme (rhyme.lycos.com)
scaleplus       -- Search Australian Law using ScalePlus (scaleplus.law.gov.au)
slashdot        -- Search stories on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org)
sourceforge     -- Search SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net)
stockquote      -- Get a single stock quote (multiple providers)
sundocs         -- Search docs on Sun.com (docs.sun.com)
sunsolve        -- Search public docs on Sunsolve (sunsolve.sun.com)
swhois          -- Search Whois (www.geektools.com)
thesaurus       -- Look up word in Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus (www.m-w.com)
translate       -- Translate human languages (various providers)
webster         -- Look up word in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary (www.m-w.com)
wetandwild      -- Real time weather information (many sources)
woffle          -- Search the web using Woffle (localhost:8080)
xxx             -- Superior XXX, hot and ready to press (arXiv.org)
yahoo           -- Search Yahoo categories (www.yahoo.com)

 All elvi have useful low calorie help, for example:

Usage: rhyme [options] [search words]...
Description:
 Surfraw search for rhymes and other word correlations using
 Lycos Rhyme (http://rhyme.lycos.com)
Example:
 $ rhyme Julian
 $ rhyme -method=rel surfer
Results:
 Hurclean St. Julien.
 surfboarder, bather, natator, swimmer
Local options:
 -method=                      Type of word correlation to search for
         prefect       |       Perfect rhyme
         syn           |       Synonyms
         hom           |       Homophones
         cons          |       Consonsant rhymes only
         rel           |       Semantically related words
         sub           |       Phrases
         spell         |       Similar spellings
         pic           |       Pictures
         shake         |       Match with Shakespeare archives
         def                   Find wordnet definition
                               Default: perfect
                               Environment: SURFRAW_rhyme_method
Global options:
 -browser=EXECUTABLE           Set browser
                               Default: mozilla
 -elvi                         List Surfraw mechanims for conquering evil
 -escape-url-args=yes|no       Apply url escaping to arguments
                               Default: yes
                               Environment: SURFRAW_escape_url_args
 -g | -graphical               Get some windowed sin
 -p0rn=yes|no                  Yes, yes, harder, deeper, faster, oh baybe
                               Default: yes
                               Environment: SURFRAW_p0rn
 -help                         What you're reading now, dude
 -quiet=yes|no                 I can't enjoy it with you talking all the time
                               Default: no
                               Environment: SURFRAW_quiet
 -new[=yes|no]                 Start in a new window
                               Default: no
                               Environment: SURFRAW_new_window
 -t | -text                    Back to the yellow brick road
 -q | -quote                   Quote arguments with " characters
                               Default: no
                               Environment: SURFRAW_quote_args
 -version                      Display Surfraw version (1.0.4)
Copyright:
 Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Julian Assange
 Copyright (c) 2001 Australian Institute for Collaborative Research
 Copyright (c) 2000 Melbourne Institute for Advanced Study
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 The system wide configuration file can be found in:

       SURFRAW_global_conf     @sysconfdir@/surfraw.conf

 Where @sysconfdir@ is something like /etc, or /usr/local/etc

 Each user can also specify their own overrides in:

        SURFRAW_conf           $HOME/.surfraw.conf

 e.g

       SURFRAW_graphical_remote=yes
       SURFRAW_graphical_broswer=mozilla
       SURFRAW_text_browser=w3m

 Read HACKING. Surfrawize the soul of your favourite internet wonder.
 Join the Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW by
 submitting code. Reclaim heathen lands. Bear witness to the
 truth. Its love will set you free.

       - Julian Assange

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  Last modified: Sun Dec 23 21:02:17 EST 2001

References

  1. http://surfraw.sourceforge.net/
  2. ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/proff/surfraw-1.0.7.tar.gz
  3. mailto:[email protected]

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