Command-line wikipedia using DNS

README.markdown

This uses the awesome Wikipedia over dns hack to bring quick wikipedia lookups to your shell.

#Usage

Ξ ~ → qiki bacon
Bacon is a cut of meat taken from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, then cured, smoked,
or both. Meat from other animals, such as beef, lamb, chicken, goat, or turkey, may also 
be cut, cured, or otherwise prepared to resemble bacon. Bacon may be eaten f" "ried, baked,
or grilled, or used as a minor ingredient to flavor dishes. Bacon is also used for barding
and larding roasts... http://a.vu/w:Bacon

Ξ ~ → wiki bacon
#opens the wikipedia page for bacon

qiki.sh

qiki() {
  local query=$(echo $* | tr " " "_")
  dig +short txt $query.wp.dg.cx | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/^"//g' -e 's/"$//g'
}

wiki() {
  open $(qiki $* | awk '{print $NF}')
}

Seems there's a bug with the wikipedia over dns service putting quotes in spaces into the txt record (see 'f" "ried' above).

That bug (or a related one) also causes some links to full articles to be garbled (e.g. 'qiki Sysadmin')