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-#! /bin/sh
-## Hit the major search engines. Hose the [large] output to a file!
-## autoconverts multiple arguments into the right format for given servers --
-## usually worda+wordb, with certain lame exceptions like dejanews.
-## Extracting and post-sorting the URLs is highly recommended...
-##
-## Altavista currently handled by a separate script; may merge at some point.
-##
-## _H* original 950824, updated 951218 and 960209
-
-test "${1}" = "" && echo 'Needs argument[s] to search for!' && exit 1
-PLUSARG="`echo $* | sed 's/ /+/g'`"
-PIPEARG="`echo ${PLUSARG} | sed 's/+/|/g'`"
-IFILE=/tmp/.webq.$$
-
-# Don't have "nc"? Get "netcat" from avian.org and add it to your toolkit.
-doquery () {
- echo GET "$1" | nc -v -i 1 -w 30 "$2" "$3"
-}
-
-# changed since original: now supplying port numbers and separator lines...
-
-echo "=== Yahoo ==="
-doquery "/bin/search?p=${PLUSARG}&n=300&w=w&s=a" search.yahoo.com 80
-
-echo '' ; echo "=== Webcrawler ==="
-doquery "/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=${PLUSARG}&maxHits=300" webcrawler.com 80
-
-# the infoseek lamers want "registration" before they do a real search, but...
-echo '' ; echo "=== Infoseek ==="
-echo " is broken."
-# doquery "WW/IS/Titles?qt=${PLUSARG}" www2.infoseek.com 80
-# ... which doesn't work cuz their lame server wants the extra newlines, WITH
-# CRLF pairs ferkrissake. Fuck 'em for now, they're hopelessly broken. If
-# you want to play, the basic idea and query formats follow.
-# echo "GET /WW/IS/Titles?qt=${PLUSARG}" > $IFILE
-# echo "" >> $IFILE
-# nc -v -w 30 guide-p.infoseek.com 80 < $IFILE
-
-# this is kinda flakey; might have to do twice??
-echo '' ; echo "=== Opentext ==="
-doquery "/omw/simplesearch?SearchFor=${PLUSARG}&mode=phrase" \
- search.opentext.com 80
-
-# looks like inktomi will only take hits=100, or defaults back to 30
-# we try to suppress all the stupid rating dots here, too
-echo '' ; echo "=== Inktomi ==="
-doquery "/query/?query=${PLUSARG}&hits=100" ink3.cs.berkeley.edu 1234 | \
- sed '/^<IMG ALT.*inktomi.*\.gif">$/d'
-
-#djnews lame shit limits hits to 120 and has nonstandard format
-echo '' ; echo "=== Dejanews ==="
-doquery "/cgi-bin/nph-dnquery?query=${PIPEARG}+maxhits=110+format=terse+defaultOp=AND" \
- smithers.dejanews.com 80
-
-# OLD lycos: used to work until they fucking BROKE it...
-# doquery "/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=${PLUSARG}&maxhits=300&terse=1" \
-# query5.lycos.cs.cmu.edu 80
-# NEW lycos: wants the User-agent field present in query or it returns nothing
-# 960206: webmaster@lycos duly bitched at
-# 960208: reply received; here's how we will now handle it:
-echo \
-"GET /cgi-bin/pursuit?query=${PLUSARG}&maxhits=300&terse=terse&matchmode=and&minscore=.5 HTTP/1.x" \
- > $IFILE
-echo "User-agent: *FUCK OFF*" >> $IFILE
-echo "Why: go ask todd@pointcom.com (Todd Whitney)" >> $IFILE
-echo '' >> $IFILE
-echo '' ; echo "=== Lycos ==="
-nc -v -i 1 -w 30 twelve.srv.lycos.com 80 < $IFILE
-
-rm -f $IFILE
-exit 0
-
-# CURRENTLY BROKEN [?]
-# infoseek
-
-# some args need to be redone to ensure whatever "and" mode applies