WIKIPEDIA(1p)

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💖 WIKIPEDIA 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for wikipedia, and it lives in the Perl docs (that's the 1p part, iykyk). it's giving extremely useful and also extremely simple, which is honestly the vibe. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

wikipedia — lookup an entry in the wikipedia 🌸

like. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a lookup girlie and she's slaying at it.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

% wikipedia [-l lang] perl

yes the example topic is literally perl. iconic. no notes. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so wikipedia is a command line tool — a real one, a main character one — that looks up a topic in the wikipedia and prints it to STDOUT. 🫶

and why do you care? because if you're the kind of person who basically lives in a shell (respect, honestly, same), you do not want to be firing up a whole web browser every single time you're like "wait what even is this thing". that's so much effort for so little payoff. instead you just ask wikipedia and she tells you. no tabs, no ads, no vibes ruined. literally the dream. ✨

✨ AUTHORS ✨

  • Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de> 💜

one author, one legend, carrying the entire thing on their back fr fr.

heads up bestie: this page ships as part of perl v5.34.0, and the doc itself is dated 2022-06-28. that's the version and the date, periodt — go off, perl. 💅

k byeee, go look something up, you've got this 🎀✨

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