Surfraw - Commands

Commands

To see the list of elvi, one can issue the command surfraw -elvi (or the shorter sr -elvi, as sr and surfraw are aliased to mean the same thing); to search using an elvi, use:

sr elvi-name searchterms

For example, to search Google for information on "Debian ports", using the "I'm feeling lucky" option:

sr google -l Debian ports

Or, one could search Wikipedia for the "surfraw" article like this:

sr wikipedia surfraw

Surfraw's commands can be shortened even further to require only the name of the elvi (i.e. wikipedia surfraw) without the sr or surfraw prefixes; it does this by modifying the current shell's (e.g., bash's) startup files with the provided surfraw-update-path command.

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