https://www.bennee.com/~alex/2008-06-03T14:19:00+01:00the wanderings of a supposed digital native2008-06-03T14:19:00+01:002008-06-03T14:19:00+01:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2008-06-03:/~alex/blog/2008/06/03/command-line-google/

<p>I have learnt to love the <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line">command line</a>. GUI's may make things easy to find but they suck at expressing complex things efficiently (e.g. &quot;show me every file that I've changed in the last hour and it less the 100kb&quot;). So this cool <a class="reference external" href="http://goosh.org/">CLI interface to Google</a> caught my …</p>

<p>I have learnt to love the <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line">command line</a>. GUI's may make things easy to find but they suck at expressing complex things efficiently (e.g. &quot;show me every file that I've changed in the last hour and it less the 100kb&quot;). So this cool <a class="reference external" href="http://goosh.org/">CLI interface to Google</a> caught my eye. I was particularly impressed with the way it handles things I take for granted like auto-expansion and completion all in the web page. I wonder if it can be built for a real command line like bash?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Excellent, <a class="reference external" href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/02/222234&amp;from=rss">Slashdot</a> comments pointed me to <a class="reference external" href="http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/">surfraw</a> which is now installed on my work box.</p>