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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 | #! /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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