Google-searching is one of the most frequent operations performed on computers these days. I'm wondering what the community here has come up with in terms of useful aliases for quick and efficient google-searching from the command line. For now, I'm using this alias: alias g http://www.google.com/search?q=^q%%1$^q Which lets me type: [C:\] g tcc This launches a browser window with a google search for "tcc". Note that I've included quotes in the alias, so that it will work with multiple search terms as well. That is, one can write: [C:\] g how can I search google with tcc And then the query will include all of those search terms I'm interested in hearing any other idea y'all might have regarding google searching from the command line. - Avi
I use a batch file, GOOGLE.BTM. This isn't really mine, or not much of it; I remember it as being a collaboration from an earlier version of the support forum, or maybe even the Usenet group. Code: @echo off rem Google.btm if "%1" == "-?" .or. "%1" == "/?" goto syntax setlocal setdos /c254 /e253 /p36 switch "%1" case "" set url=http://www.google.com case "-g" .or. "/g" set url=http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2$ case "-i" .or. "/i" set url=http://images.google.com/images?q=%2$ case "-m" .or. "/m" set url=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2$ case "-n" .or. "/n" set url=http://news.google.com/news?q=%2$ case "-w" .or. "/w" set url=http://www.google.com/search?q=%2$ default set url=http://www.google.com/search?q=%$ endswitch set url=%@replace[+,::2B,%url] set url=%@replace[%=s,+,%url] set url=%@replace[%=q,::22,%url] set url=%@replace[::,`%%`,%url] start %url endlocal quit :syntax echo. echo %@upper[%@filename[%_batchname]]: Search using Google echo. echo Usage: %@upper[%@name[%_batchname]] `[-G|-I|-M|-N|-W] search terms` echo. echo -G groups (Usenet) echo -I images echo -M maps echo -N news echo -W web (default) echo. quit
Nice! Thanks for posting! I think it would be also be useful to add switches for some of google's advanced search options, too, e.g. to limit search results by date or by domain. I'll experiment a bit with the batch file to see what I can do. Thanks!
