On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Fred Kulack
> > Sent: 06 October 2004 17:29
>
> > From your command prompt, use:
> > > google cygwin acronym list
> >
> > If that doesn't work, setup this function:
> > > typeset -f google
> > google ()
> > {
> > url="http://www.google.com";;
> > separator="/search?q=";
> > for i in $@;
> > do
> > url="${url}${separator}${i}";
> > separator="+";
> > done;
> > echo "Starting: $url";
> > ~/bin/firefox "$url" &
> > }
>
> Nice one! Can I just suggest one little change:
>
> ======================================
> echo "Starting: $url";
> - ~/bin/firefox "$url" &
> + cygstart "$url" &
> }
>
> which should be more generic across different browsers etc.
FWIW,
typeset -f google
google () {
IFS=+; url="http://www.google.com/search?q=$*";;
echo "Starting: $url"; cygstart -o "$url" >/dev/null
}
but this won't quote the arguments properly -- if you want that, you need
something like
google () {
url="http://www.google.com/search?q=`echo -n $*|perl -mCGI -pe
'$_=CGI::escape($_)'`";
echo "Starting: $url"; cygstart -o "$url" >/dev/null
}
instead. HTH,
Igor
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