ELVI(1sr)																 ELVI(1sr)

NAME

       elvi - surfraw(1) search tools

SYNOPSIS

       surfraw elviname [options] search words ...
       sr elviname [options] search words ...
       sr elviname -help
       sr -elvi

DESCRIPTION

       This is the man page for the elvi, a set of search tools that form part of surfraw(1).

       Surfraw	provides  a  fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims
       google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the  false-prophet,  pox-infested	heathen  lands	of
       html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.

       To search using this elvis, do:

	sr elvisname [options] search terms.

       For example, to search google for information on Debian ports, using the "I'm feeling lucky" option:

	sr google -l debian ports

       To find out about options specific to this elvis, do:

	sr elvisname -local-help

       To find out about surfraw, see the man page for surfraw(1).  To see the full list of elvi, do:

	sr -elvi

   Adding the elvi to your path
       If  you	are  a	regular user of surfraw, you will probably get sick of typing sr or surfraw each time. You can regain the old behaviour of
       running the elvi directly by adding the elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your path, either manually or using surfraw-update-path(1).

OPTIONS

       Use  sr elviname -local-help for elvi-specific options.

       The following options work with all elvi.

       -help  Show summary of options (including elvi-specific options).

       -local-help
	      Show elvi-specific options.

       -version
	      Show version of program.

       -browser=EXECUTABLE
	      Set browser (default: sensible-browser).

       -elvi  Display a list of other Surfraw mechanisms for conquering evil.

       -escape-url-args=yes|no
	      Apply url escaping to arguments (default: yes)

       -q|-quote
	      Bracket arguments with " characters (default: no) Note that putting quotes round arguments works now, so you can do, for example:

	       sr google foo "bar baz" bam

	      and the quoting is passed on to the search engine

EXAMPLES

	$ sr ask why is jeeves gay?
	$ surfraw google -results=100 RMS, GNU, which is sinner, which is sin?
	$ sr austlii -method=phrase dog like
	$ /usr/lib/surfraw/rhyme -method=perfect Julian

BUGS

       Please report any bugs found (or any web sites in need of surfrawizing) either via the debian bug tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/)
       or to the surfraw-devel list (surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org).

SEE ALSO

       http://alioth.debian.org/projects/surfraw/

PROPAGANDA

									Oh Baybe
								       I need some
								      Deep Linking
									Let us go
								   Surfin' in the raw!

       Read  HACKING. Surfrawize the soul of your favourite internet wonder.  Join the Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW by submit-
       ting code.  Reclaim heathen lands.  Bear witness to the truth.  Its love will set you free.

       Join us on surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

AUTHORS

       Originally written by Julian Assange.

       Now maintained by the surfraw-devel team <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>.

       See the file AUTHORS for the full list of contributors.

       Man page by Ian Beckwith, based on the original README and an earlier man page for surfraw(1) by Christian Surchi.

COPYRIGHT

	 Copyright (c) 2003-2010 The Surfraw-Devel Team
				  <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
	 Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
	 Copyright (c) 2001 Australian Institute for Collaborative Research
	 Copyright (c) 2000 Melbourne Institute for Advanced Study

       The copyright holders listed above assert no rights on this release of the software ``surfraw'' and thereby explicity  place  this  release
       into the into the public domain. Do what you will.

								   Feb 03, 2004 							 ELVI(1sr)