How to use google search from the Terminal

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How to use google search from the Terminal?

Can be sometimes interessing to try search google from your Terminal, in your server for example while you have no graphic interface. Learn how to do that is easy and can do it in 2 steps :

1- First install the curl and html2text

sudo apt-get install curl html2text

2- Now to search for example the word ‘linux’ you will have to type this command :

curl -A Mozilla http://www.google.com/search?q=linux  |html2text -width 70

Output :

zinovsky@zinovskyhowtos:~$ curl -A Mozilla http://www.google.com/search?q=linux  |html2text -width 70
 % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 27511    0 27511    0     0  83162      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   98k
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[Google] [linux                                    ]  Advanced Search
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 Results 1 - 10 of about 300,000,000 for linux [definition]. (0.19
seconds) 
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