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goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell

Posted by kdawson on from the land-a-gooshen dept.

ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

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  1. Re:Totally geeky by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's already a better choice for command line integration: try surfraw. This lets you stay within a real command shell such as bash, and just type

    $ google what I want to know

    You'll get the results directly in a browser of your choice. If you're like me, you have the browser set up as w3m, so that the google results simply appear in the same terminal where you can click on them. Since w3m is a pager like more and less, you can postprocess the google output, eg

    $ google hello | grep Cached
    www.hello.com/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages
    www.hellomagazine.com/ - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
    www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/ - 27k - Cached - Similar pages
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello - 39k - Cached - Similar pages
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
    www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm - 157k - Cached - Similar pages
    www.ipl.org/div/hello/ - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
    www.mylalaland.com/hello/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages
    publicaddress.typepad.com/ - 58k - Cached - Similar pages
    www.sanrio.com/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

    Best of all , surfraw is not just limited to google, so you can have a complete shell browsing experience for a lot of different sites.

  2. Re:Ironic... by oracle128 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Technically, the *player* is promised cake and grief counselling at the conclusion of the test, not necessarily the character (Chell). It is not specified that they will actually be given the cake, only that it will be available (which it was, the character presumably being dead was just an unfortunate circumstance preventing the character from eating said cake). Nor does it specify that "cake" isn't a metaphor for something else, such as "dumped into an incinerator" or that it may be available in the afterlife. We were shown the cake, we know it exists. If Chell didn't want to go back and get some, it's her own fault. Perhaps this user has only used cheats to get to the last level, instead of playing through the whole game.