Query Wikipedia from your terminal (640 views)

I refer Wikipedia frequently. I use this BASH function to help me do that from the terminal. For explanation of how this works head over here.

BASH function

# wiki

# eg: wiki India
#     wiki Apple_Inc
#     wiki Anglo_Saxon
wiki()
{
    dig +short txt $1.wp.dg.cx
}

Example usage

prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ wiki India
"India, officially the Republic of India ( '\; see also other Indian languages), is a country in South Asia.
It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most
populous democracy in the world. Bounded by t" "he Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on
the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of ... http://a.vu/w:India"

prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ wiki Anglo_Saxon
"Anglo-Saxons (or Anglo-Saxon) is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south
and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English
nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of 1066. The " "Benedictine monk, Bede, identified
them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes: http://a.vu/w:Anglo-Saxons"