RE: Mailing list redirection etiquette?

[Fred Kulack <kulack at us dot ibm dot com>]

On 10/06/2004 at 01:09:39 PM, cygwin-owner wrote:
but this won't quote the arguments properly -- if you want that, you need 
something like

google () {
    url="http://www.google.com/search?q=`echo -n $*|perl -mCGI -pe 
'$_=CGI::escape($_)'`";
    echo "Starting: $url"; cygstart -o "$url" >/dev/null
}
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Sigh... You can't just put that comment out there like that can you... 8-)
That doesn't get them quite right either. 8-)
> google "oh what the hell"
Starting: http://www.google.com/search?q=oh%20what%20the%20hell

Using $@ and adding double quotes to any strings with spaces before 
running them through CGI::escape does one more step nicely.
Note that I prefer somewhat verbose perl code. 

google () {
    qry=$(perl -mCGI -e 'undef $qry; for ($i=0; $i<=$#ARGV; $i++) { if 
($ARGV[$i] =~ m/ /) { $ARGV[$i]="\"$ARGV[$i]\""; } if (defined $qry) 
{$qry.=" ";} $qry.=CGI::escape($ARGV[$i]); }; print "$qry\n";' $@)
    url="http://www.google.com/search?q=$qry";;
    echo "Starting: $url"; cygstart -o "$url" >/dev/null
}

> google "oh what the hell" is this
Starting: 
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22oh%20what%20the%20hell%22%20is%20this

NQLGGOB...  8-)




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