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Old 03-05-2015
How to input data from a file into a web browser search engine?
Hi,

I have a list of strings in a file on my terminal. I would like to input each line into a search engine and press the search button within a web browser. How can this be done? I am using firefox

Thanks
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Old 03-08-2015
The following will use the default search engine configured for firefox:
Code:
cat inputfile|while read line; do
  firefox -search "$line"
done

If you don't want a new window for each result, you could use the following to get them as a new tab in an existing firefox window instead:

Code:
cat inputfile|while read line; do
  firefox -new-tab "http://www.google.com/search?q=$line"
done

Last edited by Walter Misar; 03-08-2015 at 02:08 PM..
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