Commands by kovirobi (1)

  • Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

    This removes the enclosing quotation marks ("), and sticthes the different packets together, e.g. ' Show Sample Output


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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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