Create Custom Surfraw Elvi Searches - Linux CLI

3,222 views · Published 17 December 2012 · 9:41 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: gotbletu · 2012 · Science & Technology

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How to use Surfraw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyWrSLEkcw

Package: surfraw
Version: 2.2.8-1
Description: fast unix command line interface to WWW
 Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web 
 
 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, 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 incremental text browsers, such as links, w3m (or even lynx), and screen(1), or netscape-remote a
 Surfraw liberateur is capable of research speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.
Homepage: http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org

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