abarbarian 3,309 Posted September 4, 2012 http://linuxaria.com/article/surfraw-surf-the-web-from-the-cli?lang=en Surfraw stand for: S**** Users’ Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web and is a funny way to query Search engines and other services on the net from the terminal; well, is funny for people who think that working on the CLI is funny , ah and have I told you that Surfraw was originally written by Julian Assange ? yes that one, so it must be a good tools to get information from the net… This is only a small part of the Elvi list. List of Elvi This is the list of Elvi, web site search scripts, contained in Surfraw acronym — Look for acronyms definitions (www.acronymfinder.com) ads — Search SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System alioth — Search Alioth (alioth.debian.org) amazon — Search the amazon.com bookstore archpkg — Search Arch Linux Packages (www.archlinux.org/packages/) archwiki — Search the Arch Linux Wiki arxiv — Search arXiv E-Print Archive for articles ask — Question the web using Ask Jeeves (www.ask.com) aur — Search aur.archlinux.org for PKGBUILDs austlii — Search Australian Law docs (www.austlii.edu.au) bbcnews — Search BBC News (news.bbc.co.uk) bing — Search the web using Microsoft’s Bing (www.bing.com) bookfinder — Search for books using www.bookfinder.com bugmenot — Bypass compulsory web registration with bugmenot.com bugzilla — Search for bugs on Bugzilla bugtrackers cablesearch — search openports for OpenBSD packages cia — Search CIA documents at www.cia.gov Now do not overload the CIA's servers folks 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,973 Posted September 4, 2012 Very cool :thumb up: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
