ELVI(1sr)

✨ NAME ✨

elvi - surfraw(1) search tools 💖 Hi, elvi, the little search tools that live inside surfraw(1)! 🦋

📜 SYNOPSIS

surfraw elviname [options] search words ...
sr elviname [options] search words ...
sr elviname -help
sr -elvi

💖 DESCRIPTION

okay so this is the man page for the elvi, a set of search tools that come as part of surfraw(1) 🌸

Surfraw is a fast unix command line interface to a bunch of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power ✨ It rescues google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and so many more from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms 💀 and puts them where they actually belong: deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell 👑

To search using this elvis, do:

sr elvisname [options] search terms.

For example, to search google for information on Debian ports, using the "I'm feeling lucky" option:

sr google -l debian ports

To find out about options specific to this elvis, do:

sr elvisname -local-help

To find out about surfraw, see the man page for surfraw(1). To see the full list of elvi, do:

sr -elvi

🛤️ Adding the elvi to your path

if you're a regular surfraw user, you're gonna get so sick of typing sr or surfraw every single time 🙈 you can get back the old vibe of running the elvi directly by adding the elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your path, either manually or using surfraw-update-path(1) 🧚

🎀 OPTIONS

Use sr elviname -local-help for elvi-specific options 💜

The following options work with all elvi. 🌈

• -help — shows a summary of options, including the elvi-specific ones ✨
• -local-help — shows the elvi-specific options 🦋
• -version — shows the version of the program 🔥
• -browser=EXECUTABLE — sets the browser (default: sensible-browser) 🌸
• -elvi — displays a list of other Surfraw mechanisms for conquering evil 😈💅
• -escape-url-args=yes|no — applies url escaping to the arguments (default: yes) 🫶
• -q|-quote — brackets the arguments with " characters (default: no) 🎀 ngl this one is a little extra. putting quotes around arguments works now, so you can do something like this:

sr google foo "bar baz" bam

and the quoting gets passed right on to the search engine 💖

🍓 EXAMPLES

$ sr ask why is jeeves gay?
$ surfraw google -results=100 RMS, GNU, which is sinner, which is sin?
$ sr austlii -method=phrase dog like
$ /usr/lib/surfraw/rhyme -method=perfect Julian

🐛 BUGS

if you find any bugs (or any websites that need surfrawizing 👀), please report them either through the debian bug tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/) or to the surfraw-devel list (surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org) 🫶

🔗 SEE ALSO

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/surfraw/ 🌈

📣 PROPAGANDA

the official surfraw anthem, sung with feeling: 🎤

                                 Oh Baybe
                               I need some
                               Deep Linking
                                Let us go
                           Surfin' in the raw!

Read HACKING. Surfrawize the soul of your favourite internet wonder 💅 Join the Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW by submitting code. Reclaim heathen lands. Bear witness to the truth. Its love will set you free. 💖

Join us on surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org 🧚

👑 AUTHORS

Originally written by Julian Assange. 👑

Now maintained by the surfraw-devel team <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>.

See the file AUTHORS for the full list of contributors.

Man page by Ian Beckwith, based on the original README and an earlier man page for surfraw(1) by Christian Surchi. 🫶

⚖️ COPYRIGHT

  Copyright (c) 2003-2018 The Surfraw-Devel Team
                           <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
  Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
  Copyright (c) 2001 Australian Institute for Collaborative Research
  Copyright (c) 2000 Melbourne Institute for Advanced Study

The copyright holders listed above assert no rights on this release of the software ``surfraw'' and thereby explicitly place this release into the public domain. Do what you will. 🌸

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Stamped Feb 03, 2004 and filed under ELVI(1sr), so you're officially surfraw-certified now, bestie 💅🫶✨