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- #! /bin/sh
- ## special handler for altavista, since they only hand out chunks of 10 at
- ## a time. Tries to isolate out results without the leading/trailing trash.
- ## multiword arguments are foo+bar, as usual.
- ## Second optional arg switches the "what" field, to e.g. "news"
-
- test "${1}" = "" && echo 'Needs an argument to search for!' && exit 1
- WHAT="web"
- test "${2}" && WHAT="${2}"
-
- # convert multiple args
- PLUSARG="`echo $* | sed 's/ /+/g'`"
-
- # Plug in arg. only doing simple-q for now; pg=aq for advanced-query
- # embedded quotes define phrases; otherwise it goes wild on multi-words
- QB="GET /cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=${WHAT}&fmt=c&q=\"${PLUSARG}\""
-
- # ping 'em once, to get the routing warm
- nc -z -w 8 www.altavista.digital.com 24015 2> /dev/null
- echo "=== Altavista ==="
-
- for xx in 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 \
- 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 ; do
- echo "${QB}&stq=${xx}" | nc -w 15 www.altavista.digital.com 80 | \
- egrep '^<a href="http://'
- done
-
- exit 0
-
- # old filter stuff
- sed -e '/Documents .* matching .* query /,/query?.*stq=.* Document/p' \
- -e d
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