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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:09:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Dave Korn <dk AT artimi DOT com>
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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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