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Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

This removes the enclosing quotation marks ("), and sticthes the different packets together, e.g. ' Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ wki a
The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a ; the plural is aes or, more commonly, a's. The letter A can be traced to a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
```
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wki () { dig +short txt "${*// /_}".wp.dg.cx | sed -e 's/^"$.*$"$/\1/' -e 's/$[^\]$"[^\]*"/\1/g' -e 's/\\$.$/\1/g' }

kovirobi · 2012-05-30 11:36:25 0

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