WIKIT(1)

📦 version 4.4-unstable-2022-10, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 wikit(1) — the wikit manual, general commands edition

okay so bestie, welcome to wikit(1) — this is the General Commands Manual page for wikit, and it's genuinely about to make your terminal life so much cuter. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

wikit — wikipedia summaries from the command line, no browser tab chaos required 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wikit <QUERY> [-abdD] [--link] [--lang <LANG>] [--browser <BROWSER>]
[--line <NUM>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

wikit is the tool for quickly querying wikipedia straight from your terminal. that's the whole vibe. you type, it answers, you move on with your iconic life ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay first things first: quotes are recommended, though not required, if QUERY consists of multiple words. like, it'll probably be fine, but quotes are the safe slay 🫶

here's the available flags menu:

  • -a, --all — prints all sections of the article. lowkey the move here is to pipe it into a reader, e.g. less — highly recommended, do it 💅
  • -b — opens the wikipedia article in your default browser 🦋
  • -d — opens the disambiguation CLI menu. yes, that's a thing, and it's kind of main character energy ngl
  • -D — opens the disambiguation page in your browser instead 🌈
  • --link — prints a link to the full article after the summary. perfect for when you need receipts 🔥
  • --l, --lang <LANG> — specifies the language; LANG is an HTML ISO language code 🌍
  • --browser <BROWSER> — opens the article in that specific BROWSER 👑
  • --line <NUM> — sets the line wrap length to NUM, with a minimum of 15 ⭐
  • -v, --version — prints the installed version number, for the curious girlies 🙈
  • -n, --name — prints the program name: wikit. that's it. that's the whole job 😭

🧚 CONFIGURATION 🧚

wanna change the default language? no cap, just edit:

~/.config/configstore/wikit.json

and you're set, bestie 💜

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

wikit exits with an exit code of 0 — the good ending 💖 — unless one of the following happens, in which case it'll exit with a 1 💀:

  • the language code you provided is unrecognized
  • the line length you provided is invalid
  • there were no arguments passed at all (you gotta give it something, babe 😭)
fr fr, that's the whole page. go forth and query ✨

and that's a wrap! this beauty is from Debian, dated $wikitdate$, and it's your very own wikit(1) page 🎀 catch you in the group chat, mwah 💋

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