Google query from terminal
Is there a way to launch a google query from the terminal? Like starting up google (as in firefox www.google.com
) but with a search query? It would be nice to not have to install any extra programs and have single command to do this.
Solution 1:
browser google.com/search?q=query
Where browser
is the desired web browser.
Solution 2:
You can add next function in your ~/.bashrc
file:
function google {
Q="$@";
GOOG_URL='https://www.google.com/search?q=';
stream=$(exo-open "${GOOG_URL}${Q//\ /+}" | grep -oP '\/url\?q=.+?&' | sed 's|/url?q=||; s|&||');
echo -e "${stream//\%/\x}";
}
Next, when you open a terminal you can run:
google query to search
or
google query to search &
to open in background your default browser at www.google.com including the search query.
Solution 3:
Here is a little script I use for exactly that with chrome:
#!/bin/bash -
FLAG="-i"
INCOG=""
if [ x"$1" == x"$FLAG" ]
then
INCOG="--incognito"
shift
fi
QUERY=$(echo "$*" | sed 's/+/%2b/g' | sed 's/#/%23/g' | tr -s ' ' '+')
nohup /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome $INCOG \-url www.google.com\/search\?sourceid\=chrome\&ie\=UTF\-8\&q\=$QUERY > /dev/null 2>&1 &
exit
I've included some html character replacement for # and + so I can search for c# and c++ when I need to - more could easily be added to suit your needs. I also have a -i option for the script to launch in incognito mode. I'm sure this could be adapted to firefox, but I don't use firefox.